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#1. They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
Blaize Clement
#2. It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn't matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn't care anymore.
Daniel Abraham
#3. Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#4. Cooking wasn't so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn't seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it ...
Janet Evanovich
#5. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.
Jay-Z
#6. This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,
Plato
#7. Though you see nothing, he is acting.
Max Lucado
#8. The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and
Arthur W. Pink
#9. To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#10. Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
Leo Babauta
#11. Of their passions in the same object at that particular time.
Adam Smith
#12. I don't know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don't know why I didn't love her. It's something you can't really control.
Emily Giffin
#14. Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it thus far, and no farther!
Edgar Allan Poe
#15. Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. All right. You need to vent, so I'll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard -
Gena Showalter
#16. I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#17. Perhaps our matching black outfits - even Phoebe wears dark colors - convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists
Helen Smith
#19. Lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say
Matt Taibbi
#20. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
Jerome K. Jerome
#21. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.
Paul Miller
#22. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.
L. Jon Wertheim
#23. As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry."
"And you're still not sorry," I reply.
"I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks.
"No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.
Suzanne Collins
#24. All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
George R R Martin
#25. I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
George R R Martin
#26. Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
Holly Schindler
#27. So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#28. The drawing is also a reminder that there's an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.
Steven Pressfield
#29. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
Jerome K. Jerome
#30. Enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.
Jaron Lanier
#31. John Andrew Holmes, No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
Tim Sanders
#32. Mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.
Christopher Hitchens
#33. The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they're imagining a hundred different things.
Jason Fried
#34. Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
Seth Godin
#35. Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent
Susan Scott
#36. How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it.
Dennis Lehane
#37. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.
Charles Hayes
#39. Duke's warm pink lips brushed his gently at first and then more firmly. He held the kiss for a long, breathless moment before pulling back a fraction of an inch. "Who's a fag now?" His deep voice was low and intimate. "Do you give, roomie?
Evangeline Anderson
#40. Were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of
Lee Child
#41. The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do.
Dennis Lehane
#43. We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as well, specifically that of writing on demand.
Troy Hicks
#44. Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph.
David Wong
#46. First, love one another very deeply, and don't be ashamed to express your love openly and often. Also, enjoy one another, and guard zealously your time together so as to enjoy it to the fullest extent.
Laura Greenwald
#47. And when again it's morning, they' ll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Suzanne Collins
#48. These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after
Alexandre Dumas
#49. Or he was simply pretending - like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.
Ian McEwan
#50. Here's exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that -
David Wong
#51. We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires.
Arthur W. Pink
#53. One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.
Seth Godin
#54. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#55. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
Charlotte Bronte
#56. I didn't share her concern. Damn it. I should have banished you the first time I saw you. I don't have time for this, not with everything else. You should be in the Underworld by now. Kiyo isn't going to kill me.
Richelle Mead
#57. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
Isaac Asimov
#58. Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.
Oliver Sacks
#59. I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. "God do this, God don't do that." I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.
Jean Plaidy
#60. Of the authors' imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt
Desiree Holt
#62. Well, I don't. Not absolutely. But adopting making money' as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn't one item on that list that's worth a damn if the company isn't making money.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#63. There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.
David Wong
#64. Gage opens the door. I'm not sure whether he gets out or Logan yanks him into the street, but a fight erupts. Full throttle kicks to the balls
Addison Moore
#65. We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
Arthur W. Pink
#67. He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#68. Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld
#69. Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.
Danielle Ganek
#70. And like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
John Fowles
#71. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.
Janet Evanovich
#73. You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
Maggie Stiefvater
#74. People come and go, in and out of each other's lives like it's nothing. So I don't know how/why this should be a big deal.
Lauren Barnholdt
#75. It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants.
Jaron Lanier
#76. Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are
Susan Scott
#77. The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing.
Marcus J. Borg
#78. And her answer to it because she's driving the conversation. In
Tim Sanders
#79. You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
Emily Giffin
#80. Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.
Wil Wheaton
#81. Winners recognize that even when they aren't physically selling a product, they are always selling themselves. Every human interaction is an opportunity to connect - and then to sell.
Frank Luntz
#82. Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
Brandon Sanderson
#83. For most of the hours of the day - and most of the months of the year - the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans.
Larry McMurtry
#84. Cause I lit him on fire, I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
Amanda Hocking
#85. We're all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.
Thomas Frank
#86. I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.
Sara Miles
#87. (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
Tina Fey
#88. He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking.
Patrick Rothfuss
#89. If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).
Cynthia Heald
#90. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.
Holly Schindler
#91. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness - by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15
Jane McGonigal
#92. This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more than the unnecessary ownership of the obvious, it is disempowering.
Ben Goldacre
#93. A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
Philip Pullman
#94. Of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.
John Lanchester
#95. Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Tim Sanders
#96. I think we're losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here, said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.
Joshua Ferris
#97. It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.
Carrie Ryan
#98. Imperialism and exploitation," he wrote, "spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's goods, starvation in the midst of plenty, slums with gold coasts next door, poverty supporting luxury: These are marks of an unChristian world.
Sara Miles
#100. One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
Joshua Bloch
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