As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
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Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I got the opportunity to meet people all over the world. Brilliant women, tall women, short women, slim women, thick women, you… — Nas Copy Share Image
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the… — Anne Hamilton Copy Share Image
We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines,… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And what can we do to silence these Christian athletes who thank Jesus whenever they win, never mention his name when they… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image