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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him. J. R. R. Tolkien
At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living. Mark Helprin
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life. Candace Bushnell
Wally Lamb quote: "If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and..."
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. Wally Lamb
If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic. You relize Harry Potter isn't real, right? Of course, but he could be. I mean, maybe not Harry Potter, but someone like him. Who's to say? Janet Evanovich
The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti,... Noam Chomsky
Roseanne Barr quote: "The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies...."
The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that. Roseanne Barr
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. Warren Buffett
Lee Iacocca quote: "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do..."
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca
It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum. Henry Adams
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. Elizabeth Gilbert
Lady Gaga quote: "My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead..."
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. Lady Gaga
George Bernard Shaw quote: "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible,..."
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all. Nick Hornby

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