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Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? — Sena Jeter Naslund
Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go,… — James Patterson
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest… — Max Brooks
She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It… — Susan Minot
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you… — Banksy
I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't… — Peter Cameron
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis
Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. — Anne Sexton
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from… — Jay Asher
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a… — Jean Vanier
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in… — Christopher Isherwood
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike,… — John Maynard Keynes
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side. — Karen Marie Moning
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures… — Wendell Berry
I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her… — Ilona Andrews
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite… — Nick Hornby
I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where… — E. Lockhart
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… — Kate Morton
There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience — Patricia Briggs
[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe… — Justina Chen
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a… — Carolyn Keene

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