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Anne Frank quote: "I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were..."
I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room. Anne Frank
Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet. Jean: What, you're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always be thinner... look better. Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose your willpower. Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway. Share this quote Bret Easton Ellis
Thomas Sowell quote: "Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options"
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options Thomas Sowell
Abraham Lincoln quote: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to see a..."
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to see a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
I would quit while you’re ahead. Really. It’s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it’s not any good. I would say just stop now. You don’t want to do this to yourself. That’s my advice to you. Philip Roth
Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We’ll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we’ll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us. Matt Groening
I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory. J. D. Salinger
Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible? time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket. Richard Ford
If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ’s large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear , but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They were given the chance of becoming kings or the kings' messengers. As is the way with children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why there are only messengers, racing through the world and, since there are no kings, calling out to each other the messages have now become meaningless. Franz Kafka
...something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical. Edgar Allan Poe
Orson Scott Card quote: "The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks..."
The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again. Orson Scott Card
If you want to think about something really funny, kiddo, consider the fact that our favorite modern bad guys became villains by serving as heroes first--to millions. It is now a necessary apprenticeship. William Gass
Agatha Christie quote: "Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be..."
Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. Agatha Christie
The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her. Mother Teresa

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