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When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. . . And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgment concerning whom, amongst the total chances, he ought most profitably to have married! Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even... J. R. R. Tolkien
Barack Obama quote: "We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the..."
We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America. Barack Obama
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Paul Fussell
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing. Billie Joe Armstrong
If I were someone else, I’d go along with you all. But since I’m what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together? Fernando Pessoa
Sylvia Day quote: "The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find..."
The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us. Sylvia Day
...gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity as individuals. To benefit the monster of Humanity-as-a-Whole, they even fought wars - which killed off humanity, individually, at a fearful rate. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock. Virginia Woolf
Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ... Emile M. Cioran
We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee."I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path."Not you too," I complained."Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me.I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in. Stephenie Meyer
She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee. Tom Robbins
Emily Dickinson quote: "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,..."
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry. Emily Dickinson
Charles Dickens quote: "On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!"
On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life! Charles Dickens
The lack of energy struck unfairly keen when Mo bounced into the stables. "Just had to come by before I headed off to the hell of school. Nora Roberts
Dave Barry quote: "IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU..."
IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES? Dave Barry

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