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Orson Scott Card quote: "Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice..."
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. Orson Scott Card
Judy Blume quote: "Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands"
Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands Judy Blume
At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed. Chinua Achebe
I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with. Frederick Pollock
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky. Barbara Kingsolver
John Bunyan quote: "It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will..."
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there. John Bunyan
What's wrong?" he said. "I'll tell you what's wrong: you're killing us."But I thought that's what you wanted?"We did," my mother wept, "but not this way."It hadn't occurred to me until that moment, but I seemed to have come full circle. What started as a dodge had inadvertently become my life's work, an irony I never could have appreciated had my extraordinary parents not put me through Princeton. David Sedaris
John Sayles quote: "The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in..."
The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in those days, "is that you don't fuck in front of a live band. John Sayles
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled... Barbara Pym
Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day! J. R. R. Tolkien
Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when, within a man, it travels from his thought to his conscience and returns from his conscience to his thought. This is the only sense of the words, so often used in this chapter, “he said,” “he exclaimed”; we say to ourselves, we speak to ourselves, we exclaim within ourselves, without breaking the external silence. There is... Victor Hugo
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be. Elie Wiesel
Ayn Rand quote: "Get the hell out of my way!" Said by John Galt as the leaders..."
Get the hell out of my way!" Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator. Ayn Rand
C. S. Lewis quote: "All right, I said murder and I'll say it again as often as I..."
All right, I said murder and I'll say it again as often as I like, so keep your hair on... C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star."
Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star. C. S. Lewis

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