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If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.
The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all
Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life
It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.
Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.