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Mother Teresa quote: "When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough..."
When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again. Mother Teresa
Ian Fleming quote: "It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst."
It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst. Ian Fleming
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. J. K. Rowling
Henry Rollins quote: "Yes, I guess you could say I am a lonerbut I feel more lonely..."
Yes, I guess you could say I am a lonerbut I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own Henry Rollins
We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will... Michael Foot
I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry. Stephen Dunn
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison. Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child."
There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Vladimir Nabokov
Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them. Jack London
...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else. Robert Kiyosaki
Kyle, every boy pays for kisses. Do you know what I am saying? If you've got a girl, and she kisses you, sooner or later you're paying for it. You've gotta take her out to lunch, take her to a movie, and then spend time listenin' to all her stupid problems. Look, look at Stan right there. [Kyle turns to see Stan, who's listening to Wendy over at the merry-go-round] Why he's gotta sit there and listen to her stupid motherfuckin' problems 'cause she kisses him. If you ask me, that's a lot more... Trey Parker
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour, or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in. C. S. Lewis
Well, I am rather afraid of that visit," said Clifford. "It seems to me it will be rather like going to school again."The Baroness looked at him a moment."My dear child," she said, "there is no agreeable man who has not, at some moment, been to school to a clever woman--probably a little older than himself. And you must be thankful when you get your instructions gratis. With me you would get it gratis. Henry James
But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. Augusten Burroughs

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