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It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make a summer another swallow, sensing and anticipating summer, must not fly? If every blade of grass waited similarly summer would never occur. And it is the same with establishing the Kingdom of God: we must not think about whether we are the first or the thousandth swallow. Leo Tolstoy
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come bac? (210) Cormac McCarthy
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Olivia lit a cigarette and said, "God, if I worried about..."
Olivia lit a cigarette and said, "God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere! Jeffrey Eugenides
Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand. Charlaine Harris
Jim Henson quote: "I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I..."
I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me. Jim Henson
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the..."
Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"! Bertolt Brecht
Ernest Hemingway quote: "You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark."
You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark. Ernest Hemingway
Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius
If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,’ said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, ‘I am waiting to go. Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond said softly, ‘That is the only thing you may not say to me. . . . Kate, superb Kate: I will not be mothered.’ ‘Mothered!’ Kate’s small, undistinguished face was black with annoyance. ‘I would sooner mother a vampire. I am merely trying to point out what your browbeaten theorists at St Mary’s ought surely to have mentioned in passing. Health is a weapon of war. Unless you obtain adequate rest, first your judgement will go, and then every other qualification you may have to command,... Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett quote: "Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being..."
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said. Dorothy Dunnett
Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers was as strong as the other: love and imagination. OF the three, God and love were always good. Imagination, however, could be good or bad. Mozart imagined great music into existence. Hitler imagined death camps and built them. Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret,... Dean Koontz
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "[The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has..."
[The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has been said about me is slander! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. Terry Prachett

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