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Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,… — Corrie Ten Boom
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up — Frank O'Hara
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted… — Ayn Rand
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be,… — Joel Salatin
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.… — Alejandra Pizarnik
Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else… — C.S. Lewis
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be… — Naomi Klein
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too.… — Sarah Dessen
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was… — Frank O'Hara
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,… — Leonard Cohen
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,… — Ann Brashares
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,… — David Foster Wallace
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree,… — Patrick Rothfuss
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly
I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed. — Anton Szandor LaVey
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths… — Stephen Fry
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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