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“Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey outloud?' 'Yes, Grandma, you did.' She looked at me, her… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors,… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My greatest inspiration has to be a Thai lady called Kru Nam, 40, she is from an upper middle class family and… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
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“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of… — John Haggai Copy Share Image
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Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
You have sacrified so much. And our Clan walks a safer path now. With this life, I give you pride, so that… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We all have a mission and a purpose across all of our different industries that we're in, and you can see that… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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