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Mae West quote: "JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE..."
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. Mae West
David Eddings quote: "Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose,"..."
Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose. David Eddings
He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a... William Manchester
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty. Sarah Orne Jewett
Amy Tan quote: "If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't..."
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.-An-mei Amy Tan
Jennifer Weiner quote: "Found, I told myself. Try to get found."
Found, I told myself. Try to get found. Jennifer Weiner
Lester B. Pearson quote: "The only failures are those who fail to try."
The only failures are those who fail to try. Lester B. Pearson
After denuding the trunk, the men left to denude others, and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us realize it had been speaking all along. Jeffrey Eugenides
C. S. Lewis quote: "You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't..."
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! C. S. Lewis
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies. Emile M. Cioran
How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me."Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd. Robert B. Parker
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment. Kazuo Ishiguro
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction. Paulo Coelho
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and ... David Foster Wallace

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