You have to have a sense of humor. Countering a novel and a movie is a little bit like fighting against smoke. If you swing at it with boxing gloves, you wind up looking a little silly.
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Related Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w... MITCH ALBOM There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd. HANYA YANAGIHARA She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER She knew too much. -A SARA SHEPARD May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have l... REGINA SPEKTOR If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them bot... HANYA YANAGIHARA I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it i... MATHIEU AMALRIC If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. KRISTIN CAST Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI Now for my pains, promise me-“ And she hesitated. “What?” asked Marius. “Prom... VICTOR HUGO I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite agains... LAMORNE MORRIS Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. GEORGE GERSHWIN We?re fighting it a little bit right now. You have to play through it like this sometimes during the... CHARLIE HICKEY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA 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 Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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 When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel a... DAVID LEE ROTH Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides. GENE TIERNEY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. ... JAMES DASHNER The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just m... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Willem had tried to approach the subject through various directions—through stories of friends and... HANYA YANAGIHARA No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE If you like what you hear, you can take a little bit of it home with you. CAROL CORTRIGHT Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all. KARRINE STEFFANS Everybody seems like they lost a little bit of their wind, but it's just something you have to build... DRAKE REED Tom's a bit quieter, with a wry sense of humor, ... Art, I think, is a little more ebullient. DAVID GRIFFITHS He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing. HANYA YANAGIHARA When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's... DAVID LEE ROTH That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY
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