We were too hungry to bother to read.


Doris Causey

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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.
MARIA ELENA
I don't think anyone knows what the next step is.
DORIS CAUSEY
I don't care what you see on television, it will never show the impact of what happened.
DORIS CAUSEY
That was the hardest decision, but I knew it was the right decision. I thought they were gone, becau...
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If you're going to read this, don't bother.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
I've talked to Rick Causey, and he does not have the willful, knowing, intentional state of mind it ...
MICHAEL RAMSEY
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too exc...
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Absolutely Disgusted! Your Father's Facing An Inquiry At Work And It's Entirely Your Fault! If You P...
J.K. ROWLING
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of ...
CONNIE SELLECCA
Lazy people fact #2347827309018287. You were too lazy to read that number.
ANONYMOUS
Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
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
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
HENRY MOORE
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to ...
SANDRA CISNEROS
They were cooperative. We asked them to leave private property and not to bother our guests.
JEFF HANLE
We just wanted to win tonight, ... I don't think we were necessarily mad. We were just hungry for a ...
AMANDA MILLER
We were just a little hungry tonight.
LARRY TRIPPLETT
You can't take anything away from them. They were hungry -- I think a little more hungry than we wer...
DAVE BREON
We were talking to him about it, and I'm sure he's hungry already.
JASON EMMONS
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
I think we wanted it more. We were more hungry.
CHRIS HARDEN
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
I recall being there when Mr. Causey initialed them, seeing him do that.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, a...
EDWARD HERRMANN
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.
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All three played in pretty good (high school) programs, and that always helps coming into a college ...
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The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
OTTO HERMANN KAHN
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what...
MARILYN MONROE
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
BLAISE PASCAL
In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
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Why did Causey enter a plea so close to the trial? The reality of it, the unavoidability of it, fina...
DAVID GOUREVITCH
We're losing that drive that we had in the beginning. We were more hungry.
CHRIS HAYES
If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON
There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM
We battled back. We were behind the eight ball the entire game. They're hungry and you have to mach ...
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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
They had to have some contingency plan for trial preparations for a case without Causey. Now they ju...
JACOB FRENKEL
Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA
Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second nove...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER
We began participating in the program 10 years ago when the Doris Day Foundation started Spay Day.
HARRY WELLS
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT
We were six minutes away from a good win against a good team. They were hungry. ... We almost had a ...
KEVIN WEEKES
All it took was for them to put that ball in the net against us to let us know that we were hungry f...
DUANE DESPAIN
It was a time of need. People were hungry. So we pulled together to survive until the cavalry came.
GROVER CHAPMAN
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
QUI-GON TO ANAKIN
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU
You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We're hungry to play them again. We have a feeling they were excited when the seeding came out and t...
JOSH MANNING
We have to stay hungry.
KYLE SHILOH
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT
Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too shor...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why d...
RICK MERCER
Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would rea...
ADAM LEVINE
I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
JULIAN BARNES
We were really good tonight. The guys were hungry and we really wanted the puck and went after it. W...
MARIAN GABORIK
We were all so cold and hungry. What was it like? It was hell.
LIONEL GREENBERG

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We came out and played soft and gave up two goals immediately. After that, it was nice to have that ...
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
DORIS LESSING
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Pearls mean tears.
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
DORIS MORTMAN
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
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To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
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Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Wow, this is the icing on the cake.
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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
DORIS LESSING
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...
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For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature in...
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say w...
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People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
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I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the ...
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I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
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How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
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Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
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Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
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Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b...
DORIS ROBERTS
I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER
There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe...
DORIS ROBERTS
The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE
It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM
I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM
When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM
It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER
That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
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found the family functioning very well as a family.
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They need more space and they need more privacy.
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held in virtual slavery.
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The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
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have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
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