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#1. He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring, If I were a pervert, I'd be looking for something a damn bit more attractive than you, jackass. And definitely someone that smelled alive. - Author: Rose Wynters

#2. No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that. - Author: Jonathan E. Steinberg

#3. A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these. - Author: Joe Abercrombie

#4. Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does! - Author: Moss Hart

#5. I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting. - Author: E. J. Hughes

#6. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - Author: William Hazlitt

#7. I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody. - Author: Scott Baio

#8. Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#9. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was. - Author: Mark Hill

#10. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick. - Author: Sue Enquist

#11. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ... - Author: R.K. Lilley

#12. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. - Author: Lewis Thomas

#13. Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved. - Author: Paul Weyrich

#14. What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? - Author: Jonathan Dee

#15. Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. - Author: John Podhoretz

#16. Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. - Author: Ouida

#17. I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind. - Author: Ciaran Carson

#18. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life. - Author: Paul O'Brien

#19. When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman. - Author: Mindy Kaling

#20. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. - Author: Jorge Luis Borges

#21. If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity. - Author: Brad Alan Lewis

#22. We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Charanpal. - Author: James S.A. Corey

#23. Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. - Author: Mary Everest Boole

#24. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me. - Author: Rachel Caine

#25. My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving. - Author: Angela Bassett

#26. Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book. - Author: Tibor Fischer

#27. Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude
they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race. - Author: Herb Elliott

#28. Don't see the mind for more than it is, but don't misread it for all that it can be. - Author: Jim Rohn

#29. Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign - Author: Jose De Alencar

#30. There will never be anything more exciting or wonderful than being close to God. - Author: Rick Joyner

#31. My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. - Author: Franz Kafka

#32. If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone
don't fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best. - Author: Lang Leav

#33. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict. - Author: Lawrence Samuels

#34. Harry could not stand this, he could not stand being Harry anymore. . . . He had never felt more trapped inside his own head and body, never wished so intensely that he could be somebody - anybody - else. . . - Author: J.K. Rowling

#35. I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that. - Author: Jewel Staite

#36. There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people. - Author: Des Browne

#37. The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India. - Author: Phil Gramm

#38. Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed. - Author: Robert Downey Jr.

#39. I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me ... I've done the parts I wanted to do. - Author: Jessica Lange

#40. Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
Sonet56 - Author: William Shakespeare

#41. Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him. - Author: Ilya Ehrenburg

#42. There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there. - Author: Michelle Orange

#43. If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely. - Author: Dalai Lama

#44. The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return there. This book is about how and why that could happen, and what might be done about it. - Author: Scott Malcomson

#45. Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. - Author: Voltaire

#46. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you. - Author: Auliq Ice

#47. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be. - Author: Guy Fieri

#48. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often. - Author: Brian Tracy

#49. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep. - Author: Ezra Pound

#50. Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be. - Author: John Berger

#51. People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right. - Author: Iris Apfel

#52. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. - Author: Noah Webster

#53. I've always understood pornography to be an industry growing ever more granular, appealing to smaller and smaller segments of idiosyncratic perversion. - Author: Drew Nellins Smith

#54. No man shall be blamed in the maintenance of his own religion. - Author: Thomas More

#55. The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do. - Author: Oswald Chambers

#56. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected. - Author: Matana Roberts

#57. The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will. - Author: Theresa May

#58. The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be - Author: Stephen R. Covey

#59. But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. - Author: Rick Riordan

#60. Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked. - Author: Ken Kercheval

#61. It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism. - Author: Michael Korda

#62. The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. - Author: Lord Chesterfield

#63. Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more. - Author: Marvin Bell

#64. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H - Author: Donald Altman

#65. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time. - Author: Dean Koontz

#66. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye. - Author: Menna Van Praag

#67. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be. - Author: Timothy Keller

#68. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art. - Author: One9

#69. There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me," Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more. - Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

#70. I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing." - Author: Tom Ellis

#71. All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know. - Author: Sasha Martin

#72. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation. - Author: Ray Rice

#73. Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be who and what they were? Or was the mystery what kept us coming back for more, slowly enticing us, knowing that once the truth was out, the appeal would be lost? - Author: Amber Lynn Natusch

#74. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more. - Author: Johny Hendricks

#75. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final. - Author: Jonny Wilkinson

#76. Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement. - Author: Jacque Fresco

#77. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time. - Author: Chrissie Wellington

#78. A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead. - Author: Nicolas Chamfort

#79. It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more. - Author: David Limbaugh

#80. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear. - Author: Tessa Jowell

#81. Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market. - Author: Tim Leberecht

#82. It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. - Author: Mindy McGinnis

#83. Because you can be upset while you're eating chocolate Santas. But it's much, much, much more difficult. - Author: Fredrik Backman

#84. There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more. - Author: Russell Hoban

#85. Yeah, I suppose it was a history. I wanted it to be more of a geography, but she kept slappin' my hand.' Trev - Author: Terry Pratchett

#86. From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true. - Author: Richard Arnold Epstein

#87. Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet. - Author: Rajneesh

#88. God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish." (Life Hacks, p.61) - Author: Jon Morrison

#89. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#90. I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population. - Author: Douglas Booth

#91. It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites
others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can. - Author: SARK

#92. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. - Author: H.G.Wells

#93. In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. - Author: Lafcadio Hearn

#94. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. - Author: Jane Wiedlin

#95. Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR. - Author: Tyler Perry

#96. If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#97. I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell. - Author: Chris Pine

#98. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
Nothing can be create, we shall divine
More clearly what we seek: those elements
From which alone all things created are,
And how accomplished by no tool of Gods. - Author: Lucretius

#99. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity. - Author: Erykah Badu

#100. To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy. - Author: Emma Watson