A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Author: Enid Bagnold

Author: Enid Bagnold

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You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

Author: David Lagercrantz
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When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

Author: George Orwell
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He may have been the wind, a caress, or a ghost, invading others' most precious convictions and stil

Author: Jeni Dhodary
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Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have

Author: Rebecca Serle
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Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E

Author: Bernard Baruch
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The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspect

Author: H W Leggett
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Grasp the simplicity and power of no excuses and you have guaranteed success.

Author: Brace E. Barber
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As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Author: Jay Alan Sekulow
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We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.

Author: Paul Levy
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There are only four kinds of people in the world.Those who have been caregivers.Those who are curren

Author: Rosalyn Carter
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It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the ou

Author: Tomasz Chrusciel
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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distor

Author: Haruki Murakami
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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soak

Author: Haruki Murakami
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The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive.

Author: Euginia Herlihy
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Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair

Author: Michael Graves
Quote #398880

The Hebrews knew that by rest, God meant not only the protection of their boundaries from invading h

Author: Will Davis Jr.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp

Author: Russell Hoban
Quote #270218

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo

Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
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Stephen King is just one of the numerous modern engineers of human souls. This mega-writer got a meg

Author: Dubravka Ugrešić
Quote #223477

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be ink

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote #83031

Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises i

Author: Simone Elkeles
Quote #123922

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird,

Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote #52852

Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "ooh, ah" in the beginning and then sudden

Author: Liane Moriarty
Quote #74407

Your purpose lies where your passion, wisdom and gifts meet and complement each other.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of

Author: Saul Steinberg
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I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Author: Ruth Handler
Quote #302504

We can only accept teachings that we have put into practice with our own awakened understanding and

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Quote #483509

'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've

Author: Kathe Koja
Quote #362458

Most of the days, I am gripped by these visions,Memories! that haunt my present,What is it, That Sep

Author: Syed Murtaza Haroon
Quote #157198

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Quote #488479

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will d

Author: Steve Jobs
Quote #12105

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Author: Richard Adams
Quote #59870

Monsters have the worst taste in women.

Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Quote #62828

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #342391

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #54412

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #140744

If by chance I fall; I'll learn what I had to, get up, stand up and live the rest of my life.

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #62201

The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that

Author: Unknown
Quote #204648

Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees thei

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #272113

Love me!Hate me!I don't care which because either way,you're still talking about me!

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
Quote #188861

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
Quote #313904

Even the darkest and stormiest sky will give way to a bright and beautiful sun.

Author: Mario J. Rocchetta
Quote #39816

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural.

Author: Blaise Pascal
Quote #480259

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community,

Author: Coretta Scott King
Quote #457806

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September

Author: Adam Schiff
Quote #123644

Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't

Author: Meg Cabot
Quote #1102

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of thei

Author: Roger A. Caras
Quote #86905

Learn from seeds

Author: Unknown
Quote #490142

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom o

Author: Steve Forbes
Quote #323117

Happiness is a habit,it’s more than fleeting,more than a disintegrating lozenge.

Author: Brian D'Ambrosio
Quote #313772

No matter how your dreams are impossible if you keep in dreaming, your wishes will come true.

Author: Thea Marielle Santos
Quote #490139

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publ

Author: Mikko Hypponen
Quote #115810

To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something i

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Quote #464510

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life

Author: Baltasar Gracian
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There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you sta

Author: Subodh Gupta
Quote #49516

Never give up just because you failed initially

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #286887

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote #485245

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Author: George Lucas
Quote #362573

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you ca

Author: Paul Brooks
Quote #409519

Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!

Author: Unknown
Quote #466101

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are alwa

Author: Will Ferrell
Quote #438362

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her

Author: Nikola Tesla
Quote #193739

...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... Fro

Author: Timothy J. Keller
Quote #385802

If I had to, I was going to rip every inch of me open, give him as much blood as he needed to surviv

Author: Ada Adams
Quote #344726

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA

Author: Amita Trasi
Quote #16254

No man was born empty.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #210132

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and

Author: Jim C. Hines
Quote #459904

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

Author: Jay Leno
Quote #265015

We will paste upon the curled pages wordsLike charming and romantic and sentimentalForgetting that c

Author: Emilie Autumn
Quote #88790

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story o

Author: Daniel Quinn
Quote #211042

Satan wants you to die, but Jesus wants you to live.

Author: Fritz Chery
Quote #95329

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #183734

Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness

Author: Jamie Tworkowski
Quote #291896

Forming Holiness with filthy hands and heart which leads to a disastrous future is like trying to im

Author: Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
Quote #419891

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Author: Winston Churchill
Quote #237643

What point is there in dying in a ward, listening to the moans and rasps of the terminally ill? Woul

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Quote #490399

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Quote #361546

Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

Author: Tony Curl
Quote #5991

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of s

Author: Lisa Kleypas
Quote #106039

The Holy Spirit speaks sacred words.

Author: Unknown
Quote #195409

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my o

Author: Elisabeth Egan
Quote #439220

The only failure is not to try.

Author: George Clooney
Quote #222497

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,

Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Quote #50924

Speaking is like conducting an orchestra; but instead of music, you are directing emotions.

Author: Anthony Eldridge Rogers
Quote #244835

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond

Author: Mike Bond
Quote #376042

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

Author: Brian Spellman
Quote #487284

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Author: Epicurus
Quote #117891

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime

Author: E.L. Doctorow
Quote #228021

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate

Author: Charles Taylor
Quote #18930

Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!

Author: Amy Leigh Mercree
Quote #86381

One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends,

Author: Pete Hamill
Quote #108818

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continu

Author: Osip Mandelstam
Quote #445899

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart

Author: Stephen Elop
Quote #110184

Nothing can touch the human heart like kindness.

Author: Unknown
Quote #258820

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

Author: David Runciman
Quote #157260

There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?

Author: Pawan Mishra
Quote #46819

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Author: LouAnne Johnson
Quote #198941

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the pursuits, appearance, things we like, things we hate

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quote #418513

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's me

Author: Sharon Begley