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A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.
I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.
Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.
Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.
He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.
The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.
Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.
Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.
The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.