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You see, they think they're saving you, and you think you're saving them. That's where the trouble starts. Someone says, 'I saved you, now here's what I want.' And its the same with big countries and little ones, religious leaders and their followers, even husbands and wives. When things really work, though, it's because people realize that this is a lie, that, really, we all save one another. It's the way of the world. Things work out for the best when everyone makes it, together, when... Benazir Bhutto
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to..."
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone. Chuck Palahniuk
Clive James quote: "There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not..."
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into. Clive James
Rumi quote: "When someone is counting outgold for you, don't look at your..."
When someone is counting outgold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver. Rumi
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me. Dave Eggers
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly..."
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! Ludwig Wittgenstein
He could not tell her that he was angry because she did not love him. Even he could not utter such foolishness. Certainly, he did not love her. He did not love anyone except perhaps Isaac and a very few of his other children. Yet he wanted Anyanwu to be like his many other women and treat him like a god in human form, competing for his attention no matter how repugnant his latest body nor even whether he might be looking for a new body. They knew he took women almost as readily as he... Octavia Butler
Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. Mercedes Lackey
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? Isaac Asimov
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "It is nor fair to ask someone to do something you are not..."
It is nor fair to ask someone to do something you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Werner Heisenberg quote: "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that..."
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. Werner Heisenberg
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them. Terry Prachett
Amelia Earhart quote: "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be..."
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. Jodi Picoult
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane,... Amy Tan

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