It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Author: Frances Conroy

Author: Frances Conroy

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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she b

Author: Samantha Shannon
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When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, a

Author: Rebecca Walker
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Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-bria

Author: Emily Dickinson
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth Internat

Author: Leon Trotsky
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Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Author: Alan Dershowitz
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Wrong turns make the right turn all the more worthwhile, once discovered.

Author: Michael Allan Scott
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We learn from every experience to be wise.

Author: Unknown
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That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gu

Author: John Marsden
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If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met

Author: Orson Scott Card
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This magic does not work with anger.

Author: Mark Andrew Poe
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One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
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My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or a

Author: Beth Revis
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Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

Author: Charles F. Glassman
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We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue,

Author: Bauvard
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The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes u

Author: Allan Lokos
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Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be

Author: Anthony Breznican
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Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are dist

Author: Bryant McGill
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It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to exper

Author: Adam Gopnik
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We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management

Author: Steven Magee
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Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same t

Author: Alan Partridge
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If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

Author: Rene Denfeld
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Author: Nancy Gibbs
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When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the sli

Author: Shelly Crane
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

Author: Oscar Hammerstein
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Just being ourselves, feeling proud of what we are by God's grace, believing in our own efforts to b

Author: Sriveena Dhagavkar
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I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

Author: Anthony Liccione
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In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message

Author: Gregory S. Cootsona
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How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those

Author: Joseph O'Connor
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God himself and Jesus relied upon light to function on the earth

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correcti

Author: Asa Don Brown
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Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for

Author: Martina Boone
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Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will

Author: Madeline Miller
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind

Author: Padma Lakshmi
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Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pai

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University C

Author: Karl Pilkington
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
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To Be Empowered Is To Fulfill Destiny

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.

Author: John Powers
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It is better to be respected by few than to be feared by all

Author: mng
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[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
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Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fract

Author: Eugene Taylor
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Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

Author: Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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You there is such a thing as a door," I whispered. "You should try it some time.

Author: Chanda Hahn
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t

Author: Robert Fulghum
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God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Author: Will Leamon
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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Author: Jacqueline Carey
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May the Lord give you grace to handle life’s challenges.

Author: Unknown
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Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

Author: Julian Barnes
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My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

Author: Anna Akhmatova
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All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work

Author: Haniel Long
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Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I

Author: Harper Lee
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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w

Author: Colum McCann
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades aw

Author: Jack Dorsey
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that

Author: Saki
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There is something called positive thinking that people often confuse with hope. But it is different

Author: Stevan V. Nikolic
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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Author: Christa McAuliffe
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It was about you... what I wrote. It was all about you." His bottom lip began to quiver."I know," I

Author: Renee Carlino
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Gary Robinson died hungry.He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and o

Author: Edna Buchanan
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Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding

Author: Suzy Kassem
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I must have you. We must have each other. You know that, don't you? You'rein my blood, God help us b

Author: Sara Craven
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It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has t

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Author: Steve Berry
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We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out

Author: Keith Ablow
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There is no peace without power.

Author: Toba Beta
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Author: Kathryn Davis
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

Author: William Carlos Williams
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At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

Author: Kevin Mitnick
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Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought

Author: Joe Blow
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A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding

Author: John Cheever
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A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace t

Author: Wenonah Hauter
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God predetermine the path for each sacred soul.

Author: Unknown
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Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother t

Author: Bernard Pomerance
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There is no other shame like senseless sin.

Author: Unknown
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It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working

Author: William Kamkwamba
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Author: Plato
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It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dea

Author: Jenn McKinlay
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Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.

Author: S.J. Kincaid
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, mana

Author: Sachin Bansal
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Author: Earl Warren
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My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

Author: Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until

Author: Naomi Jackson
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Who are you not to be yourself?

Author: Scott Stabile
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You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very ric

Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Much effort, much prosperity.

Author: Euripides
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Dare to try the impossible.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so

Author: Amrita Singh
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Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Loveg

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargaine

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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Your life will reflect what you persistently think about.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way

Author: Gwenn Wright