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Related We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establis... HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just a... LAURA ADAMS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS Volimo na prave nacine, ali pruzamo to pogresnim ljudima. TAMARA STAMENKOVIC We are now in the process of evaluating information that we gathered. We told the victims that they ... DANTE JIMENEZ And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. 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MAAS The U.S. Supreme Court can strike down acts of the legislature as unconstitutional, which is not tru... RICHARD LAZARUS People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you do... DEON POTGIETER Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unk... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN We were a little slow starting out this morning and made some mistakes that lost us. Georgia rode ve... BOO DUNCAN They are in the right marketplace and we know we can provide a multitude of entertaining gaming opti... ALEX CZAJKOWSKI I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... JOHN GREEN When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... JOHN GREEN If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so... STEPHEN FRY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right. FARAH EZZATIE Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no ... JOHN STEINBECK What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. A... JEANNE DUPRAU Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is nothing like right or wrong question or answer. A question may be right for someone and wro... ANUJ SOMANY But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau... JIM BUTCHER They have felt for six years that this shooting was completely unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and... DAVID ROSEN Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging. SUZY KASSEM It's amazing that people can push family members and friends away and never realize the hurt they ha... FREEATLAST God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can... MATTHEW BRODERICK These children can go out and have children of their own, but they don't have a good basis for paren... DAWN DELUCA It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It... JOSS WHEDON The way they play is real loose. They have fun, get up and down the court, and they attack ya, and h... LUKE CUMMINGS If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the w... STEPHEN FRY The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Patients need to know that depression fluctuates over time and can be treated effectively with medic... ALAN CHRISTENSEN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN We just want to point out places where they can hit and what they should hit off the tee. (We) just ... JIM BROWN There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t... SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to. SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant. SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a... SARAH J. MAAS
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Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge... HUBERT MARTIN On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ... HUBERT MARTIN Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ... HUBERT MARTIN I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde... HUBERT MARTIN I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ... HUBERT MARTIN I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on... HUBERT MARTIN All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de... HUBERT MARTIN It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m... HUBERT MARTIN You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe... HUBERT MARTIN I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ... HUBERT MARTIN My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir... HUBERT MARTIN She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ... HUBERT MARTIN And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves. HUBERT MARTIN I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ... HUBERT MARTIN He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic... HUBERT MARTIN Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h... HUBERT MARTIN She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts. HUBERT MARTIN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide... HUBERT MARTIN Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true, I need this, I need my arrow to find yo... HUBERT MARTIN My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-... HUBERT MARTIN Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t... HUBERT MARTIN She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway. HUBERT MARTIN She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave... HUBERT MARTIN That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ... HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ... HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve... HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ... HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about... HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more... HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t... HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa... HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would... HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg... HUBERT MARTIN