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You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.


L.M. Montgomery

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If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
L.M. MONTGOMERY Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
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NIGEL HAMILTON I thought we made a great thrust defensively tonight. We met their runs with our runs.
BOBBY DAWSON Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree wit...
ROBERT JORDAN She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration th...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the ba...
LLOYD PAUL STRYKER He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.
VIKRANT PARSAI He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This ...
NICK HORNBY Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing
FRAN LEBOWITZ When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.
HOZIER I may be a simple man, but I am very good with an axe.
DANIEL H. WILSON Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure.
DEYTH BANGER Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unles...
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GEORGE ORWELL The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. WHITE The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind
E. B. WHITE The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?
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MIKE TALLON "Undoreth, we. Battle-born. Raise hammer, raise axe, at our war-shout gods tremble.
MARK LAWRENCE I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave m...
KATHRYN L. NELSON We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
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VIOLETA GARCIA A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY I like myself better when I'm with you.
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DR. SHAILESH THAKER I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER …If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
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HARUKI MURAKAMI A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than on...
JOSEPH ADDISON There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver y...
HILARY MANTEL I didn’t know if I could stop her with one blow. But I could whack the crap out of her.
RACHEL VINCENT We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you.
ANMOL ANDORE Love an enemy with unconditional trust.
Reveal his treasure to him without any thrust.
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SENECA Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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CONVERSATION WITH APIGEON Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.
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SHARON OSBOURNE This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person wh...
BONNIE HAMMER You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own ver...
JOHN ROGERS Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her ha...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things she could do with her mouth would blow any man off course.
TIFFANY REISZ A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his si...
ALDO LEOPOLD In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his qu...
ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY He will be greatly, greatly missed by all of us, ... Everyone who ever met that man had a positive a...
BILL SHAW Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY It's when you think of me that I have goosebumps there with you.
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MARGOT ASQUITH I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and sha...
DEBASISH MRIDHA When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do bl...
THOMAS CAMPBELL I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.
TONY GREIG I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no ...
FOXY BROWN With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW (We) met with a gentleman who had been a junkie or an addict for 25 years and interviewed him.
HEATH LEDGER If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Time marches on...with or without your ass
DENNIS BARTON In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again...
APURVA GAGLANI Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Don't use an axe to embroider
MALAYSIAN PROVERB In the leaping light, as the fresh wood blazed up, Frodo saw many grey shapes spring over the ring o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You don't blow the whistle with two seconds left, in the championship of the Kingdom of the Sun. You...
TODD FOSTER That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you co...
MAX BROOKS I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chase...
BEN MARCUS I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
UNKNOWN A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON [Why did these strangers embrace her when her mother could not? At Planned Parenthood, she had met p...
JOE FIELDS Blow for blow, you guys were right there with them. Forget the scoreboard; this is one you should ne...
GENE CHEW We decided to get creative and put up toilets instead of a fence. I had an aunt who did this one tim...
ROBIN SUTTON No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
JANE AUSTEN A war is fought with an army, but you are alone in the battle. One who couldn't save himself will tr...
CHAITHANYA DASS We do not see this as a blow.
DOUG HATTAWAY You tend to find the most dramatic prices in auction when you have people not from mainland China ha...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I've come home in love with loneliness
L.M. MONTGOMERY When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I coul...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset......
L.M. MONTGOMERY Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in sil...
L.M. MONTGOMERY People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
L.M. MONTGOMERY There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'

'No witch...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Desire grows by what it feeds on.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you...
L.M. MONTGOMERY ...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel g...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it c...
L.M. MONTGOMERY There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
L.M. MONTGOMERY Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am...
L.M. MONTGOMERY The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
L.M. MONTGOMERY You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
L.M. MONTGOMERY We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share th...
L.M. MONTGOMERY But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have spr...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Never on painter's canvas lives
The charm of his fancy's dream.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.
L.M. MONTGOMERY She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.
L.M. MONTGOMERY To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
L.M. MONTGOMERY The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.
L.M. MONTGOMERY If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.
L.M. MONTGOMERY