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"Good and quiet do not connote weakness."

"If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life."

"For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you."

"I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself."

"Everything is a choice and we can always choose to come from a place of love."

"They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one."

"A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage."

"While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me."


"Only God is not limited in anything."

"Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)"

"Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being."


"When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us."

"It's kind of like religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith."


"National Transformation must begin with every citizen of the land."

"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

"And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It's a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy who an hour ago carried himself like a jungle predator, now has the content aura of a lazy cat bathing in the sun."

"We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management."

"Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!"

"A good leader is known by 'his qualities' not 'his authorities'."

"The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change."

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

"ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome."


"Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children."

"There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene."

"His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children."

"In the sea, Corr's clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don't want to say good-bye. I blink to clear my vision and reach up. I pull off his halter. The ocean is his love and now, finally, he'll have it. I back out of the surf. There's a thin, long wail. Corr takes a labored step away from the November sea. And another. He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me."

"The gift of a new day brings with it hope and potential. It is up to you to seize it. Do you recognize what an incredible gift it is to be alive for another day? Another entire day! How will you spend it? What will you do? More importantly, what will your attitude be? How will you spend this gift? I hope you will use it wisely, with gratitude and joy in your heart. Use it to spread love and kindness, use it to make a difference, use it with joy! Carpe diem!"

"I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water."

"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

"When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood, in the back of her mouth. It grew down into her stomach, where it knotted her intestines. It made her arms stiffen and her shoulders lock. It pushed against her ribs until she felt they would snap like sticks."


"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
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