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american-writer
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. Hinton
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She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. Thomas Nelson Page
american-writer married woman
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard
american-writer diets-and-dieting lose people resolution seems weight
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape. Ed Smith
american-writer book books-and-reading
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before. Clifton Fadiman
american-writer stated
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. Dorothea Brande
american-writer
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. Michael Arlen
american-writer cannot force formidable invisible joy love material offer possession powerful seen transform
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara de Angelis
american-writer class
I could have had class. I could have been a contender. Budd Schulberg
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
complaining clinton
The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it. Chris Christie
complaining folks
Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most. David Mitchell
complaints dogs liberty
We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge. Paul Ellis
complaining miserable
I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain. Billy Eichner
complaints complaints-and-complaining increase seen since tip year
We have seen a five-fold increase in our caseload since 2000, ... We went from 4,000 complaints a year, from 4,000 referrals a year to 17,000. And we think that's just the tip of the iceberg.
complaints complaints-and-complaining earnings economy growth hold market move opportunity raising rates seen stop
We have no complaints with bottom-line earnings growth in what we've seen so far. The economy is going to hold together, earnings growth is going to hold together, the Fed's going to stop raising rates and that will give the market an opportunity to move forward. Mark Foster
complaining sometimes feels
Sometimes I feel like an old hooker. Cher
complaining fruit
I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. Charles Goodyear
complaining enough fountain
Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough. Benjamin Hoff
controlled possession substance
The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance, Jim Bush
control proud reacting reported staff student students
We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.
control full healthy
We are at full control of a completely healthy spacecraft.
control couple guys last nod spring stuff weeks
There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A. Dusty Baker
control forces ministry
There are some forces out of order, not under our control, and not under the control of the Ministry of Defense.
control hopefully smarter team
We still want to control the clock. Hopefully we're a smarter team now. Jake Delhomme
controlled game half organised pressure second
We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,
control covering exactly happens smart team
We started covering their inside. We really wanted to control that at the end. When that happens a smart team does what? They go outside, and that's exactly what they did.
control damaging night spent trying water
We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,
fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. Charles Spurgeon
fool cry-the-beloved-country quiet
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton
fool
And thus love makes fools of us all. Chris Cleave
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
fool peculiar bad-mood
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
fool emotion aim
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. Casey Affleck
fool
Wishers were ever fools. William Shakespeare
fool slave life-time
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
fool slander rail
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
takes vote yes
When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.
takes truth
We're going to go where the truth takes us.
takes
We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.
takes
We're just not doing the things it takes to win.
takes walk
We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.
takes
Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.
takes time
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. Randy Pausch
takes timing week
Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.
takes time
We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. Chinua Achebe
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.