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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? Aldous Huxley
I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and... Voltaire
I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. Corrie Ten Boom
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."
Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz
Edith Wharton quote: "There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not..."
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. Edith Wharton
I'm told my father cemented a number of profitable deals in this room." Alan eased down beside her. Shelby opened her eyes to slits. "I imagine he did. By the time he was through, he could've reduced most normally built men to puddbles." Idly the trailed a fingertip down Alan's thigh. "Do you ever use saunas for vital government intrigue, Senator?"I'm inclined to think of other things in small hot rooms." Bending, he brushed his lips over her bare shoudler-the touch of a tongue, the quick... Nora Roberts
Life here is probationary. It is man’s duty to become the master, not the slave of nature. His appetites are to be controlled and used for the benefit of his health and the prolongation of his life-his passions mastered and controlled for the happiness and blessing of others. David O. McKay
Walter Isaacson quote: "I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic..."
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gasse) Walter Isaacson
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension. Vaclav Havel
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. Jane Austen
The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. Jane Austen
My feet are killing me."I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally. Clive Barker
Michel de Montaigne quote: "~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the..."
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~ Michel de Montaigne
Jane Austen quote: "I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than..."
I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than to hear i? Jane Austen
I'm going to be a star some day," she announced as though daring him to contradict her."I'm sure you..."It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want."It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel, but..."If I'm not, I'll commit suicide. Nathanael West

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