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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of... Christopher Hitchens
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? Walter Scott
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I believe that in time we will have reached the point where..."
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. Jorge Luis Borges
Stephenie Meyer quote: "No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's..."
No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever. Stephenie Meyer
Stephen King quote: "Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because..."
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome. Stephen King
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common. David Sedaris
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected. William Least Heat-Moon
Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then... Terry Brooks
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill. Neil Gaiman
When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.” He paused. “It's Zero Hour now. Agatha Christie
E. M. Forster quote: "Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things..."
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M. Forster
Josh Billings quote: "Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in..."
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of..."
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. Gilbert K. Chesterton
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting? Suzanne Collins
I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?"Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?"Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it. Suzanne Collins

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