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I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

But when it is a question of the life of a king it is better to sacrifice the innocent than save the guilty — Andrew Lang

I still have hope that I won't have to confess it all, but he must have gone through angel interrogation school because he gets it all out of me. — Susan Ee

It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. — Ayn Rand

To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult. — Vikram Roy

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. — Rachel Hunter

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you". — John Wooden

Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it. — Sharon Kay Penman

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now. — Clive Barker

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them. — Sting

This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss. — Penelope Ward

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

I've always been a know-it-all. I drive a lot of people a bit crazy. But I can't seem to help it. — Tom Noonan

We sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it. — Jerry Seinfeld

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. — Patrick DeWitt

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry. — James Dyson

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. — Frank Stella

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. — David Ogilvy

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it. — Bill Gates

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back. — Sue Grafton

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time. — Jeff Bridges

Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. — David Chiles

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. — Sam Worthington

Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll. — Jason Mraz

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. — Amelia B. Edwards

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. — James Hetfield

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. — Jim Carrey

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not. — Christopher Lee

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." — Regina King

Being silent for long periods of time was a gift of mine. Most may not see it like that, but it actually takes a strong will to cultivate said talent. — Mary E. Twomey

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back. — Mikhail Gorbachev

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. — Michel De Montaigne

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. — Trey Anastasio

That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ? — T. B. Joshua

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis. — Morley Safer

God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds ... — John Geddes

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean. — Joe Girardi

Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it. — Bennett Madison

This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. — Douglas Adams

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad — Joseph Delaney

I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe. — Ricky Schroder

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music. — Joan Jett

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. — Charles Dickens

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living. — William Beebe

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. — Jonathan Swift

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy. — Nellie McKay

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it. — Graham McNeill

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. — Antoine Arnauld

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. — Alan Watts

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true. — Tiffani Thiessen

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed. — Whitney Johnson

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

We went into the laser tag room, paranoid, delirious, and shot at one another. It was a little like Lord of the Flies but with more 98 Degrees. — Katie Heaney

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. — Jennifer Granholm

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it. — Ray Kroc

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement. — Douglas McCulloh

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations. — Colin Ward

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished. — Lorraine Heath

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things. — Carew Papritz

But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse. — Jess Rothenberg

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it. — Suzan-Lori Parks

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. — Isabelle Adjani

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. — Plutarch

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it. — Ai Weiwei

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. — Soren Kierkegaard

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. — Laura Mvula

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! — Mary Wesley

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require. — William Branch Giles

A shadow disappeared into one of the shops, but it could have been anyone. Nevertheless, I had the uneasy feeling that someone was following us. — Embee

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him. — Sophie Jordan

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks. — Candace Cameron

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business. — Eartha Kitt

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it. — Olivia Palermo

Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life! — James Clavell

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. — S.A. Tawks

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering. — Danica McKellar

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security. — Jean-Marie Guehenno

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired. — Melanie Benjamin

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all. — Anne Rice

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place. — Todd Rundgren

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz