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#1. Why, he is rather small,' replied Mr. Bumble: looking at Oliver as if it were his fault that he was no bigger; 'he is small. There's no denying it. But he'll grow, Mrs. Sowerberry--he'll grow.

Charles Dickens

#2. They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. She didn't want to close herself into this bad-smelling room with the old woman, but when there was no choice, hesitation was ever a fault.

Stephen King

#4. There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

Jim Brown

#5. At some point there was no almost.

Lionel Shriver

#6. Oh, there was no doubt about it, I wanted to fuck her. I wanted to fuck her so bad I couldn't sit properly. I wanted to fuck her, make sweet love to her, do very bad things to her. It was crazy fucking beautiful - the need I had for this woman.

K. Langston

#7. But I also knew that there was no going back. One can never go back; nothing and no one is ever the same. All that remained was an occasional evening of sadness, the sadness that we all feel because everything passes and because man is the only animal who knows it.

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. She knew she could be executed if she were caught, but there was no way that she would leave Callie in the hands of Fae.

Cathlin Shahriary

#9. And though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

John Fowles

#11. Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith. But he figured it must be high up the ladder of mortal sins, ones that required serious contrition and confession to a priest. Bondurant

John Heubusch

#12. Claire's skin suddenly felt prickly. It came so easily to Sydney, and Claire used to hate her so much for it. Look how naturally she talked with Tyler, made it seem like toit was no big deal to fotm connections when they were so easily broken.

Sarah Addison Allen

#13. Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The

Ted Dekker

#14. When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

Gary Oldman

#15. I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

John Knowles

#16. For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Neil MacGregor

#17. Maybe there was no rewind button for life, but surely Matt could change the channel.

Jennifer Hillier

#18. You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?

Jodi Picoult

#19. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

Queen Latifah

#20. Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

David Hilbert

#21. When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

Jason Calacanis

#22. I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Jerry O'Connell

#23. She knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry - not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.

Ruskin Bond

#24. Darling? Did she just call him 'darling', or was it 'dahling'? There was no reason to panic. There were plenty of la-di-dah women who referred to their dogs, drivers, and other la-di-dah women as 'dahling'. It was a perfectly normal thing to do in la-di-dah world.

Shuchi Singh Kalra

#25. When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Christopher Pike

#26. There was no near sound - no steam-engine at work with beat and pant - no click of machinery, or mingling and clashing of many sharp voices; but far away, the ominous gathering roar, deep-clamouring.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#27. Whoa, whoa!" he says as he sits up in bed. "You're beautiful. There is no ugly now. And I'm sure there was no ugly then. It was only how you felt when you were sick. I can understand that. But I can also assure you that you have never been ugly. There is only beauty here.

Lisa Mondello

#28. Artemisia maintained a reserved silence for as long as she could, but by the time they entered the tranquillity of the park her amicability had reasserted itself. Besides, she concluded that there was no point in ignoring a person when they were so obtuse as to not realise they were being ignored.

D.G. Rampton

#29. The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Ford Madox Ford

#30. He wanted them both, but there was no having everything, and love couldn't help him now. Nothing could help him but bravery, and what was that anyhow?

Paula McLain

#31. The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S. Truman

#32. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

Tahir Shah

#33. She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

Alan Dean Foster

#34. There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Ben Fountain

#35. People that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as

Lewis Carroll

#36. One of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

Eva Ibbotson

#37. She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Margaret Way

#38. It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#39. She was daft. That's what she was. Completely mental. There was no other explanation for why she was lurking in the back of Butler's Undertaker Lounge and Pub while her siblings were about to go in the front so they could distract him.

Carlene O'Connor

#40. Gossip, as it existed at that time, is a lost art. News carried home from a gossip fest could literally change lives. There was no defense against rumors

Linda Swain Bethea

#41. The last thing Helen thought before she drifted off after him was that she'd slept on a beach like this before with another boy. But this time there was no Helen-shaped dent for her to fit inside.

Josephine Angelini

#42. There was no use grieving over what might have been

Janette Oke

#43. AR 601-210 was necessary because conscientious objectors could not enlist as medical experiment volunteers when there was no active draft program, according to prior Army regulations. This meant that the supply of WHITECOAT volunteers was cut off at the end of the Vietnam War.

Colin A. Ross

#44. I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

Shane Koyczan

#45. Proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.

Salman Rushdie

#46. Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener.

John Updike

#47. Treasure quickly became junk when there was no place to put them.

Courtney Pierce

#48. There was no room for unhappiness when squeezed between two sets of washboard abs.
New life motto, right there.

Cora Carmack

#49. The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going.

Lars Emmerich

#50. There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.

Leo Tolstoy

#51. People make mistakes. If there was no such thing as forgiveness, there wouldn't be any friendships left in the world.

Brent Hartinger

#52. If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

#53. There was no opiate like a French pillow.

David McCullough

#54. Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

Kristin Hannah

#55. There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.

Josef Joffe

#56. The necessity for rational critique was increasingly felt in the tenth century, when the idea of a double truth became widespread: one for internal use and the other to be upheld outside the group; the old critical method was no longer sufficient, because it was known that a witness could lie.

Abdallah Laroui

#57. There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Leo Rosten

#58. He was my lifeline,and I was pretty sure he will always be. There was no place I felt safer than when he held me in his arms like this. Sometimes I just want it to stay here, in his chair, and never leave.The outside worlds could melt away, and I wouldn't care.

Sherri Hayes

#59. It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

Anna Kingsford

#60. Six months ago, I was intrigued, bewitched even, by this butterfly man. Now I was in love with him, impossibly so. Impossible because there was no going back from this. I was a changed man. My heart belonged wholly to him, and I knew, without a doubt, it always would.

N.R. Walker

#61. Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

Barney Kessel

#62. {Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.

Kingsley Amis

#63. Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.

Rick Perlstein

#64. There was no time to think, I just hit it

Andres Iniesta

#65. The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.

Scott Lynch

#66. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

Gene Wolfe

#67. There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued ... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby.

Miranda July

#68. There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.

Anthony Burgess

#69. There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

Greg Egan

#70. There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.

Sid Gillman

#71. I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.

Stanley S. Thornton

#72. While it was true that the president of the United States was the world's ultimate juggler of tasks, it was also a fact that the First Lady, traditionally, was no slouch in that department either.

David Baldacci

#73. I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.

Brie Larson

#74. She gave for no gain., no goal she needed to reach. Love was no a prize but something she owned inside and shared freely.

Jennifer Probst

#75. Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.

David Horsey

#76. Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.

Han Kang

#77. Hank, this is great."
"Yes."
He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

Ayn Rand

#78. He was conscientious, he did his duty as he understood it; but he was no seaman.

Patrick O'Brian

#79. There was no denying that I was physically attracted to her, and while she was a different type of girl than I normally went for, I wasn't surprised by wanting to get in her pants and between her legs.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#80. I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Edwin Morgan

#81. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.

Eleanor Catton

#82. There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.

Laini Taylor

#83. Don't fuckin' do shit like that again, baby," he interuppted in a raspy, hurt voice. There was no anger in is voice, just a desolate crushed roughness. "Cause I ain't wanting to be without you. You hearing me? You're my fuckin' woman. We ride this road together, no matter what gets in our way.

Tillie Cole

#84. There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Romeo Dallaire

#85. What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.

Lemony Snicket

#86. Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

Neil Gaiman

#87. With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face.
All he had was a skull for a head.

Derek Landy

#88. In Haven, old houses didn't settle. They carried a life of their own, and Blackwater farm was no exception. This was a house that would never be a home. The best they could hope for would be to co-exist with the ghosts of the past.
- The Silent Twin

Caroline Mitchell

#89. There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

Kelly Price

#90. I wasn't just fucking Ani. It never could have been that, and I was an idiot for assuming it could. Our lives were intertwined. I cared too much before we'd started sleeping together. There was no way I was going to be able to shut that off once I'd been inside her.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#91. Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Mark Twain

#92. and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it,

Stephen King

#93. He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Michel De Montaigne

#94. Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Jeff Bridges

#95. They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

Mark Helprin

#96. Genevieve's stomach gave an unpleasant flop. There was no mistaking that feeling. She was jealous. Damn it.

Rosalie Lario

#97. She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did. He had understood that with Rowan, she was no longer afraid of him; with Rowan, Arobynn was now utterly unnecessary. Irrelevant.

Sarah J. Maas

#98. But she could not reduce her vision to words, since it was no single shape coloured upon the dark, but rather a general excitement, an atmosphere, which, when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of the northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools.

Virginia Woolf

#99. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

Neil Strauss

#100. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At

Jodi Picoult