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My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
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KATE NASH The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Every time we step on the floor we try to get David the ball down low. Good things happen when we do...
BRAD STAMPS Things started out alright and then tapered off, ... We did some good things, we did some bad things...
KOY DETMER We started getting better looks. We got better shots (in the paint), so when that happens you get go...
JEFF BRUSTAD Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI Wow, we sure came out hard. We were so fired up for this game because we knew we couldn't lose it. W...
CLAIRE FAUCHER It was really frustrating. Not so much that (the games) were so close. We started out (the trip) so ...
COREY KOSKIE We just swept three strong Southern Section opponents, so that's a good sign. I'm pleased with how w...
BUD KLING 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 We came out with good intensity, but could not seem to get goals out of good possessions. Our defens...
CINDY TIMCHAL David [Wain] and I had been writing a spoof of romantic comedies, and we started thinking about this...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER We got our confidence. We knew we could shoot good. We just went out and started making them.
ALLAN BALLWEG When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year o...
COURTENEY COX We put out the welcome mat and we were trampled upon, ... We all wanted to help, but we never though...
JULIA RENFRO It was good to get out there and start the game, ... Things started all right and then tapered off. ...
KOY DETMER We started out a little tentative. We couldn't get into any kind of offensive rhythm.
KRISSY KUKAR We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the ba...
KRIST NOVOSELIC We had a lot of time off, so we felt them out before we started to attack.
ART THOMASON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It was really something that we wanted to get started for the public library -- we want to have a ch...
GENA PROCHASKA Against Dawson, we started out very slow and got ourselves in a hole early. They were a good team, b...
BOB HIESTER 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 We looked tired out there. They were boxing us out so we couldn't get second looks, which is what we...
EMILY WESTERBERG So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
DAVID PETRAEUS They started out so fast but once we switched to a zone, they slowed down and we started to pick it ...
AMY SANDERS Randy and I decided to get it started, so we wrote the check.
DERRICK JACKSON We said since Stanford, there's not one post player that can kill us to the point where it will win ...
LISA WILLIS We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.
JASON SWEARINGEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH And then we started panicking because it was so dark and we didn't have flashlights out there.
KATHRYN MARTIN We received a sample lamp several years ago at a TRIAD meeting. We started looking into the price bu...
JOE COLEMAN That's the way the ball bounced. We were trying to get good opportunities. We needed to be patient, ...
FRANK BAUMHOLTZ We started out pretty good, then they came back. We sure got a lot of runs on their errors.
BRIAN HOLGATE We started out good. If we would have gotten that effort for four quarters I would have been happy.
JASON BRUNDAGE I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
DON RYAN I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
PAULEY PERRETTE We were despised and trampled upon but the Lord lifted us.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We started out playing a really good team, and they beat us in 20 seconds.
DAN MATHIS David and I started talking about obscure theater, and A, My Name Is Alice came up. We both enjoyed ...
BILL KIRKLEY We just didn't get started. They got in a rut and never got out. We got down on ourselves.
ART THOMASON We started with us cleaning out our closet. Now we generally have to get (the art) from somewhere el...
LOIS RIGDON We all played really good defense tonight. We're focusing on defense. We started the year off really...
KATHLYN MCCLAIN We thought we started slow in the Minnesota game so we wanted to come out a little bit faster tonigh...
KAWIKA MITCHELL [Drummond stressed last Saturday's victory over SMRH was] a good team performance with James Henders...
GORDON DRUMMOND We were ready, but I think we just came out tight, nervous, ... Once they got they got their first g...
DAN MURPHY Now we get our shot as David against Goliath. We'll come to play.
HARRY BOWSER It was just a real good feeling to get it started. We thought we had a pretty good group of kids the...
BOB EAGER We started off shaky. But after the first game, we started to get better.
STEVEN POTTER At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We came to Florida thinking we were going to get a tan. Going to spring training was amazing enough....
ALICE EVANS Our attack is in very good hands with David, Matthew and Scott. We're going to score, but we have to...
BOBBY BROCKMAN Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL Kyle Busch drove his heart out. We really wanted to get Kyle the youngest win on record and we just ...
ALAN GUSTAFSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We struggled with their defensive pressure. After our good start, we started to play too much one-on...
CHRIS MOORE We were doing great early on then the wheels came off in the fourth. We started out playing real goo...
CRAIG LAMBERT We came out flat, but we warmed up and started playing good defense. A lot of our offense comes from...
DARRIS OLSON David and I are good friends, so it should be nice out there tomorrow. This is a strong field, so it...
DAVID HOWELL We have monitored the David Fernandez situation and will continue to do so,
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We were losing residents to Butler and Clermont counties because we didn't have any new homes,
DAVID MOORE As soon as we started playing good hockey, everybody started dropping.
DANIEL BERTHIAUME We started working hard every day in practice. We started getting the right mind-set and getting res...
BRYAN GREENE We came out and had a good run in the second half. (But) they started making big shots.
BRYANT MARKSON The team has already started to jell. We go over the wall as good as anybody out there.
BILL SAUNDERS We're getting good pitches to hit and we're not missing them. We have more home runs here [five] tha...
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER