Antecedents Examples Quotes

#1. To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Rolf Potts

#2. Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

Elon Musk

#3. The greatest treasures are books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Jodie Foster

#5. It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were.

Lemony Snicket

#6. The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us.

Matthew Syed

#7. Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

Randy Owen

#8. Worship helps us to get rid of a lot of life's spiritual and natural frustrations. Through worship God brings to us a wholeness of body, mind and spirit. God is refining our understanding of true worship. True worship comes from the heart, in love and adoration unto the Lord.

Ruth Heflin

#9. Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

Mary Livermore

#10. Let's put it to a vote. Shall the ballots be open or secret?"
"We don't need Soviet-style voting," Charushnikov said, offended. "Let's vote the honest way, the European way: secret ballots.

Ilya Ilf

#11. The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Curt Weldon

#12. I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.

Augusten Burroughs

#13. The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live.

Lois Lowry

#14. It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

Henry James

#15. When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

William Randolph Hearst