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A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man. — Heather Graham

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out. — Amanda Eyre Ward

It wasn't love, but a deep intrigue. It was a pull, gravity. — Alanna J. Faison

She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live. — Bette Lee Crosby

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. — Lance Armstrong

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper

I didn't have to think about the word love with Collin because I just felt it. This was love. And. I. Loved. Him. — Nicole Gulla

Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she'd had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent - like a scar or an immutable tattoo. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. — Alan Green

Emit gratitude as though it was done — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ... — Jean-Christophe Valtat

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. — Sarah Addison Allen

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned. — Jim Broadbent

Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other. — Bryn Greenwood

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. — Bertolt Brecht

I was a total introvert who did not belong in public. It was my service to everyone. — Tiffany King

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better. — Curtis Jackson

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. — Betty Grable

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. — Geezer Butler

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back. — Eddie Griffin

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled. — Raymond L. Atkins

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it. — Tim Kaine

How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical — Alissa Nutting

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing. — Torii Hunter

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

Still, if there was anything, it came about by no one else's power save the divine will. Everything is from God. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean. — Torrie Wilson

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing. — Goose Gossage

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it. — Elmer Seward

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it. — Sophie Turner

It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu. — Liane Moriarty

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. — Don Cornelius

Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then — Iain M. Banks

Operation Find A Toilet Before It Was Too Late was in full swing. — Gabrielle Tozer

Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well. — Jeaniene Frost

It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. — Marcel Proust

It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shrivelled forms
Crouched in the moonlight. — Wallace Stevens

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty. — Ethel Waters

Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children. — Trisha Baker

In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. — Orson Scott Card

So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice somewhere much too high. — Stephenie Meyer

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. — Mira Sorvino

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too. — Ally Carter

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born. — George Ticknor

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own. — Lauren Ambrose

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. — Eminem

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16. — Vinnie Jones

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. — Dinah Sheridan

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions. — Shaquille O'Neal

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. — Zoltan Istvan

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

It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's. — Anna Godbersen

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

It was vision that dulled trust. It was vision that uplifted trust. Let them see how. — Ray McFarland

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. — Arthur Smith

It was men, not God, who had done those things... — Kameron Hurley

It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night. — Liane Moriarty

I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction. — Alan Bradley

Argentine was a hard king to serve. He had a barbed whip for a tongue and it drew blood whenever he spoke. — Jeff Wheeler

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy. — John Scalzi

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. — Kenneth Williams

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use. — Knut Hamsun

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read. — Gail Carriger

Breathe!
It was a command. And order, and I pulled in a breath before he shoved himself back in, invading me, breaking me ... — C.D. Reiss

I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. — Lauren Oliver

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. — Minnie Driver

My fault? It could be. So much was my fault, the result of my actions or decisions. Sabina — Faith Hunter

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. — Edward Norton

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. — Aung San Suu Kyi

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. — Lord Mountbatten

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. — Terry Pratchett

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. — N. Scott Momaday

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

Jesus Christ - who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens - can now be eaten in the form of a cracker — Sam Harris

If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me. — Ellen Schreiber

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it. — Nicholas Sparks

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites

Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die. — Rob Thurman

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks. — Chris Frantz

No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world. — John Burnside

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. — Art Garfunkel

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life. — Mac Miller

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part. — Sam Walton