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GARY F EVANS... Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
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ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
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LILLIAN S. VILORIA We must protect the freedoms we enjoy today to raise a family, to start and grow a business and keep...
JIM GIBBONS She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from ...
LOUIS AMUNDSON We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
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ANDRUW JONES That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother ...
DEB LOUGHEAD Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me w...
JOSEPH DELANEY The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov...
C. JOYBELL C. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU Preparation is good for success and it is a noble thing to prepare excellently for success, but in r...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London...
JAMES NASMYTH old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a ne...
FARAAZ KAZI When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
TORI AMOS To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER I think we played well. We fought through cold shooting to start the game, and we overcame their run...
MIKE REED to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the long run to elimina...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I told the guys that we need to get to the basket and run. I knew that if we ran in both halves, the...
BRIAN CROOKES We start filming on October 5th in New York. We've got a great cast. 'Beautiful Ohio,' is the name o...
REGGIE MILLER When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
M. SCOTT PECK Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I feel that once we start getting on a run and we get going, it's hard to stop.
MARIAH WILLIAMS We first learn love from our mothers, to live with no regrets and to inspire our greatest potential.
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened ...
MARIA SEMPLE Everybody wanted to run me out of town. But Nick was going to be a utility infielder, and we needed ...
JOHN SCHUERHOLZ I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ...
AKSHAY VASU When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES But I wanted to cook. I needed to cook. Mom had raised me with the implicit understanding that cooki...
SASHA MARTIN No matter where we go we take ourselves and our damage, with us. So is home the place we run to, or ...
DEXTER MORGAN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We want to run from the water and hide from the wind at this time.
FRANK GUTIERREZ for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the ...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT We played well from the start of the first game. We were eager to play and we played with passion fr...
LLOYD HULIT From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Our World is run mental disorderly!
MAURICE SPEES Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we d...
MOSHE DAYAN We came with nothing so we have nothing to lose. We have enough time to feel, experience, and enjoy.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
JAMES CARVILLE Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
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[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
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WILLIAM COWPER He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
WILLIAM COWPER The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPER The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,
Is alw...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinc...
WILLIAM COWPER 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
WILLIAM COWPER A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPER The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst o...
WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of o...
WILLIAM COWPER I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
B...
WILLIAM COWPER A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER