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Iain S. Thomas

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RONALD REAGAN The chance to sail with Iain is very attractive, a big draw.
IAN WALKER the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor....
LIAM NEESON Obviously everyone is extremely disappointed for Iain,
CLIVE WOODWARD If people werent so selfish, i would be happier.
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin t...
EVE ENSLER Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for ...
IAIN S. THOMAS The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
IAIN M. BANKS Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN I´m with you, but Lucy?” He sounded dark and baleful. “Lucy´s mine.
ALYXANDRA HARVEY Everything happens for a reason... except you. You were an accident.
THOMAS STOKES So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE Your hands are mine to hold, Your lips mine to kiss, Your body mine to please, & You soul mine to mo...
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD Seagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Nigel: Oh would you just shut up? You're rats with wings.
FINDING NEMO People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.
JAMES DASHNER That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to fe...
JOHN UPDIKE I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
SEAMUS HEANEY You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration an...
ALEXANDER PAYNE Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormous...
MATTHEW RHYS It was a gutsy move to bring Thomas back with six minutes left in the game. Our press got us back in...
EVAN MASSEY I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villa...
DOROTHY ALLISON Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
HARVEY KAYE I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Pa...
BEN SCHOTT Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He do...
SARAH SILVERMAN Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thoma...
RAMI MALEK Can we get on with this?" Father Laggan cried out. "In the name of the Father…"
"I'm inviting...
JULIE GARWOOD Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
AUGUSTINE SAINT You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It isn't lost on me that sailing with guys like Iain is pretty awesome, ... Ben's sailing with me in...
IAN WALKER You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out...
DENNIS WEAVER But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever disc...
IAIN THOMAS That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then d...
IAIN THOMAS This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.
IAIN THOMAS The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussi...
IAIN THOMAS I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you...
IAIN THOMAS Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitte...
IAIN THOMAS To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd...
DAVID EDDINGS I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderf...
DOUGRAY SCOTT Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON In the America's Cup, you can't go to your backup quarterback. You can't juggle your batting order. ...
DAVE ANDERSON It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.
DAVID SOUL You're appealing to the organization that found against you to begin with,
GEORGE INNES There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that&...
AL LEWIS It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro...
BARRY MANN My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine...
TIM RYAN Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality...
ANITA HILL It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate b...
CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged.

"I do...
JIM BUTCHER It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
DAVID A. ADLER But you have to begin taking it with 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. That's usually about when pe...
DR. MATTHEW CARTTER Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the ...
AL JARDINE When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're gettin...
MARK TWAIN If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
OPRAH WINFREY I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated ...
PIERCE BROSNAN Ladies and gentlemen....."
His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room.
"Let the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the...
CARLOS MARIN Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself...
CHINUA ACHEBE Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
NALINI SINGH A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manha...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage
JAYCE O'NEAL In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL i don't force you to be mine but my heart forces me to make you mine
MAYDEE YOUNGSTAR You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continuall...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suff...
BO DEREK It depends on how good of a time manager you are to begin with.
DENIECE SCHOFIELD It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does h...
MARLO THOMAS I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never r...
SPIKE MILLIGAN ... then the world 's mine oyster.
JAMES STEPHENS I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that'...
SAMIRA WILEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compoundi...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they&...
IOAN GRUFFUDD Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend...
CRAIG ARMSTRONG You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for y...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
HALEY REINHART Begin with the will you know before looking for the will you don’t know.
PAUL SILWAY You could probably get carried away with superlatives when it comes to Frank Thomas. He's arguably o...
BILLY BEANE I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next do...
CHINUA ACHEBE Thomas was just hundredths of seconds away. Thomas is new to track, but he's making strides.
KIM WILLIAMS To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can...
BARRY JENKINS As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don'...
JOYCE MEYER To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
THOMAS EDISON We read to know we're not alone.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Love never dies.
JAMES PATTERSON In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - lo...
MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start...
RUDY GIULIANI Nobody's expectations are going to be more than mine.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
OSCAR WILDE Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all...
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The future is ahead, prepare for it.
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IAIN DOWIE I wouldn't mind one or two more and the chairman is very aware of that and we'll try and press on on...
IAIN DOWIE My commitment is unequivocal.
IAIN DOWIE There were plenty of fireworks on the pitch, but the only flares on display were those on Nigel's su...
IAIN DOWIE We were magnificent for three quarters of this season. But since then these players have not been wo...
IAIN STEWART With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, a...
IAIN SINCLAIR He's a big Palace fan and so is his mum and I think that if I hadn't got him she would have gone ban...
IAIN DOWIE I practically fell off my seat on the subway this morning. I could not believe it.
IAIN LEVINE [H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the ...
IAIN PEARS Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any ...
IAIN PEARS Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then tho...
IAIN PEARS Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as al...
IAIN PEARS Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- th...
IAIN PEARS Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for ...
IAIN PEARS He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligatio...
IAIN PEARS Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
IAIN PEARS She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set ...
IAIN PEARS And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship,...
IAIN PEARS [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]....
IAIN PEARS Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulga...
IAIN PEARS I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began.

"And what of your soul, when ...
IAIN PEARS Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its n...
IAIN PEARS Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.

Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not...
IAIN PEARS The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for on...
IAIN PEARS