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There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect Charles Dickens
Margaret Drabble quote: "I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could..."
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try. Margaret Drabble
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop... Fulton J. Sheen
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. Without a doubt it is the prime aggravator of the Middle East. Those of us who have for... Richard Dawkins
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. Anne Rice
Nicholas Sparks quote: "What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give,..."
What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations. Nicholas Sparks
Jane Austen quote: "Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. Jane Austen
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Wilkie Collins
The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here. Jerry Seinfeld
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems. Tony Blair
You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say, "We did it ourselves! Lao Tzu
I forced words out: There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand at all. I can't tell what I think about things or what I'm supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail, the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared , I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I'm not such a wonderful human being. Haruki Murakami
William Steig quote: "How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?'..."
How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing? William Steig
Dean Koontz quote: "Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest..."
Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else. Dean Koontz

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