A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Author: Hugh Bonneville

Author: Hugh Bonneville

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Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meanin

Author: Skadi Winter
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If Flynn hadn't known his older brother for the addicted, lying sack of shit he was, he might have b

Author: M.A. Grant
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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophica

Author: Douglas Adams
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Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Author: Ernest Becker
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of -

Author: Tina Turner
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After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music i

Author: Gayle Forman
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We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustrati

Author: Anchee Min
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Fighting with tangles,fighting with curls,the poor barber yanked,the poor barber pulled,until with o

Author: Mili Fay
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Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still f

Author: Dan Brown
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Hope is the faith of miracles.

Author: Unknown
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Because I’m attracted to you. Because you’re the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each on

Author: N.D. Jones
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The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things.

Author: Unknown
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A white wall is the fool's paper.

Author: French proverb
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Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh

Author: Joan Kirner
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I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

Author: John Green
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So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encoura

Author: Suzanne Collins
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I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I w

Author: William Lloyd Garrison
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At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
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For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom

Author: Adam Gidwitz
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I only make movies I want to go see.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer
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Scary to be vulnerable, to open your heart but, oh, the out of this world feeling as you savor the p

Author: Virginia Toole
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Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselv

Author: Unknown
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv

Author: Francis Bacon
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All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for

Author: Karla Perry
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I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the sci

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.

Author: Steven Redhead
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In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular mome

Author: Rachel Thompson
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Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world

Author: Chris Burkmenn
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental

Author: Agatha Christie
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I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Author: John Krasinski
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(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old w

Author: Leigh Bardugo
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I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better st

Author: Veronica Roth
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With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates tha

Author: Criss Jami
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We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Author: Erwin Schrödinger
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We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever

Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

Author: Diane Setterfield
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Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?

Author: Jeffrey Fry
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You can go as far as you dream, think and imagine.

Author: Unknown
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You could achieve nothing with wondered mind! you need to stop it!

Author: Kunal Jajal
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You can’t control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be a

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I have a horrid scar right under my left knee from you. Well, the absence of you. Seems appropriate.

Author: Elizabeth Brooks
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To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability

Author: Charles Baudouin
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In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible

Author: Billy Graham
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Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?

Author: Molly Ringle
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To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resti

Author: Robert Hobson
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And sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabo

Author: Nikki Giovanni
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Eyes skip a low-key profile.

Author: Toba Beta
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What a blessing, what a treasured friend that despair turned out to be. It continually crushed my on

Author: Lori Cash Richards
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We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

Author: Tom Piccirilli
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War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Author: C. E. Montague
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The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Author: Unknown
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I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust,

Author: Joss Stirling
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I'm at that place I grew up to leave.

Author: Adrian C. Louis
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Gregory: Go to hell.Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it.

Author: Anne Osterlund
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Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,Have been given a bad name.They're easy targets.When the fam

Author: Eileen Granfors
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Author: Pablo Neruda
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
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The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfer

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hai

Author: Dita Von Teese
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There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer d

Author: Unknown
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The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we

Author: Robert M. Pirsig
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By m

Author: Lev Grossman
Quote #78109

When we choose to love people and the wonderful things around us, it always puts us one step above t

Author: Ron Baratono
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Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date.

Author: Joss Stirling
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Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for th

Author: Aslaug Magnusdottir
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The best way to respond to Hatred is to trigger Love. The one who Loves is the Greatest

Author: Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
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From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

Author: Aaron Lauritsen
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To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

Author: Roxane Gay
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Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on lim

Author: David Halberstam
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*You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in hi

Author: Richard A. Knaak
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I sat at the computer and started my BDSM research in earnest. I learned three things: I still very

Author: Lilly Black
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you ke

Author: Alexandra Daddario
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I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

Author: Fran Wilde
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Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intent

Author: Bryant McGill
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The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightenin

Author: Shannon A. Thompson
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Obedience is less painful than regret.

Author: Christine Caine
Quote #96125

A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Beauty is not defined by your physical features. It is defined by the heart inside your chest and th

Author: Imania Margria
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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

Author: Josh Billings
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People are wrong when they say things like, “I didn’t have time to think.” If you’re really worried,

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
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I have never loved a half human creature as my ancient loverShe was 30% human when with me,I bet she

Author: Bandile M. Matsenjwa
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For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust

Author: Stephen A. Schwarzman
Quote #47500

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

Author: Doris P. Johnson
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the cou

Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Author: Winston Churchill
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In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story.

Author: Kavya Janani U.
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Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel

Author: Warren Farrell
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a cert

Author: Ernie Pyle
Quote #95449

Church leaders need to pray more than they lead.

Author: Alin Sav
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Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made,

Author: Rebecca Solnit
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I made an attempt to reach him in his grief. I said, "I've had this pain. To tell you it will go awa

Author: Eli Brown
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And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resu

Author: Zack Love
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Sometimes the truth feels good.

Author: Carson Kressley