Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

Author: Evangeline Lilly

Author: Evangeline Lilly

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I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is ki

Author: Don Roff
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I am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here

Author: Rupi Kaur
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She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman.

Author: Wataru Watari
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Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.

Author: Cyc Jouzy
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Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's ri

Author: Jami Attenberg
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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they wa

Author: Ralph Lauren
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My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to

Author: Morrissey
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Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks s

Author: Clarice Lispector
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White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with mag

Author: Tom Robbins
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Author: Mark Twain
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It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

Author: Jack London
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People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
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I have been over into the future, and it works.

Author: Lincoln Steffens
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What's your name?""Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?

Author: Dennis Lehane
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We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a del

Author: Judith Warner
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Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

Author: Patrick Modiano
Quote #86287

The flames of our memories keep us alive!

Author: Avijeet Das
Quote #350829

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing.

Author: Will Bly
Quote #213275

They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindne

Author: Abby Lass
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Do not let the darkness of others hide the brightness of your heart.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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It was any wonder how a wave could withstand such a look from eyes like that and continue to build t

Author: Lindsay Chamberlin
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The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Author: Ilchi Lee
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would h

Author: Christine de Pizan
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio

Author: Norman Mailer
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even

Author: Edward Abbey
Quote #342879

Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.

Author: Ron Leshem
Quote #206291

When a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #390992

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl.

Author: Stephanie Rowe
Quote #30005

You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.

Author: Amanda Stephan
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Prayer does not alter that which God has determined

Author: Unknown
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News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of t

Author: Steven Magee
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The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner

Author: Margaret Bourke-White
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You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west," he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten t

Author: Stephen King
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I think we can do it.""But you don't know for sure," he said."No.""Geez, Anita.""Don't get rattled o

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Author: Barbara Sher
Quote #201384

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I conside

Author: Syrie James
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You know that feeling when everyone around you is happy and you feel like you're standing back to wa

Author: Jen Naumann
Quote #178616

We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

Author: Jimmy Carter
Quote #302964

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Author: Stephen King
Quote #407052

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Author: A. E. Housman
Quote #77037

When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendship if you learned inst

Author: Afton Rorvik
Quote #123007

Romance comes from the heart and is manifested in actions.

Author: Daryl Baugh
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age o

Author: Chance The Rapper
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The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,onl

Author: Karen Joy Fowler
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You are today where your decisions have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your decisions will

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #88152

All adventurous women do.

Author: Lena Dunham
Quote #65376

Let your BE inform your DO.

Author: Tehya Sky
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What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainst

Author: Ben Katchor
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In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's

Author: Theodore Dreiser
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The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Author: Richard Wright
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Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Author: Matthew Quick
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We often look for kindness back in the same place we gave it, and mostly that is where we go wrong.K

Author: Drishti Bablani
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In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have n

Author: Victor Shamas
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It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silenc

Author: Lang Leav
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The end of this life is not the end of life.

Author: Kate McGahan
Quote #332235

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

Author: Dean Koontz
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If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally respon

Author: Marilyn Manson
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There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.

Author: Missy Lyons
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Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and chang

Author: Keith Ferrazzi
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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scatterin

Author: Wilkie Collins
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Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and li

Author: James H. Cone
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Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good

Author: Amit Abraham
Quote #469025

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Author: Mel Brooks
Quote #331343

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in ev

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #374208

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system.

Author: Ingela Bohm
Quote #107080

If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #133529

Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth.

Author: Unknown
Quote #378355

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the t

Author: Elizabeth Yates
Quote #289068

Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only fo

Author: Quentin R. Bufogle
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The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism abo

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our cl

Author: Stephen Harrigan
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One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself……….

Author: Sameh Elsayed
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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along th

Author: Virginia Woolf
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Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pund

Author: Eugene Kennedy
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You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodli

Author: Tom Brokaw
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Author: Erma Bombeck
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The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Th

Author: Matthew Donnelly
Quote #335000

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Author: Richard John Neuhaus
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Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the abilit

Author: Rick Perry
Quote #134288

We must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
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We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students sh

Author: Kimberly Hill Campbell
Quote #397288

Well then that's our date confirmed. I am excited! Most girls want to know if I have long term plans

Author: Lucy Robinson
Quote #340406

You are such a sleazeball, Rhodes—walking, talking proof of why siblings shouldn’t marry.

Author: Cherise Sinclair
Quote #443939

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be unders

Author: Robert Lanza
Quote #306627

There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.

Author: Brittainy C. Cherry
Quote #425612

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats

Author: Noam Chomsky
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It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally o

Author: Lord Paulmerston
Quote #53461

Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to by

Author: Sharon Salzberg
Quote #47791

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of suc

Author: Edward Said
Quote #179673

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

Author: Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Quote #90040

The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.

Author: Hiba Fatima Ahmad
Quote #138806

He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when the

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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I spent too long worrying about what other people think.

Author: Miranda Kenneally
Quote #296642

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps t

Author: Joseph J. Ellis
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He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing toge

Author: Carsten Jensen
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I know the plans I have for you, and they're all about me. (Rufus says to Chloe)

Author: Ellen C. Maze