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She looked at him then, but his image blurred behind tears that swelled into her eyes. She must leave. She must leave this room, because… — Kristin Cashore
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?… — Carson McCullers
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and… — A. E. Housman
Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given. — Rhonda Byrne
Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter some serious thought."… — Alexandra Adornetto
The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have… — Andy Andrews
Since Iâ€™ve known you, youâ€™ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given… — Megan McCafferty
Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail. — Christine Warren
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. — Charles Bukowski
Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given. — Tatjana Soli
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what… — Barbara Hambly
Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. — Vera Nazarian
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems… — Nick Hornby
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. — William Gibson
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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