I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
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There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
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It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions.… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
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