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Nora Roberts quote: "Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a..."
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Nora Roberts
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. Cormac McCarthy
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind."
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. Lois McMaster Bujold
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first. Jodi Picoult
Toni Morrison quote: "Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to..."
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then--?' We believed your two hundred dollars.' You mean--' She seemed not to know what he meant. I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right. Dashiell Hammett
George Orwell quote: "It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that..."
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. George Orwell
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary. Carter G. Woodson
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always... Michael Crichton
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from a double contact: on the one hand, a whole activity of discourse discreetly, indirectly focuses upon a single signified, which is "I desire you," and releases, nourishes, ramifies it to the point of explosion (language experiences orgasm upon touching itself); on the other hand, I enwrap the other in... Roland Barthes
Thomas Browne quote: "By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by..."
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
Al Gore quote: "Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your..."
Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. Max Frisch
Dwight D. Eisenhower quote: "No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he..."
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mal: "Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say."River: "I do. But I like to hear you say it."Mal: "Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home. Joss Whedon

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