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He specifically said of believers in Him that, 'In my name shall they cast out devils' (Mark 16:17). — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace.
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — C.S. Lewis

What do they think they're doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?" said Ron finally. "If any dog needs exercise, that one does. — J.K. Rowling

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe. — Rafael Benitez

It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard. — Michael Chabon

I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it." — Joan Rivers

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold. — Cormac McCarthy

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also, — Stephen Crane

Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best. — Voltaire

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging. — Michael Nutter

That's what they say," Jun Do said. "But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done." The — Adam Johnson

I was nothing to them.
Just a toy, like Suit said. And they were like a bunch of bratty rich kids who knew that every toy was replaceable. — Skye Callahan

There were things they said out loud to each other, things they whispered with a twitch of the face, and things that were stoically hidden. — Nadia Hashimi

But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented. — Annie Potts

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else. — Ron Hall

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea. — George Eliot

She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway. — Leisa Rayven

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews. — Kate O'Brien

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing. — Edgar Bronfman Jr.

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. — Claude Lanzmann

Come, drink with me," the fat man said. "A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say. — George R R Martin

That's my gun," Ty said in an offended voice. "They hid my gun in the sex toys? That's not right, man. — Madeleine Urban

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything. — Garry Marshall

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman

That's no dog," he said. "It looks like a monkey and a dog fell in love and had babies and this is the ugly one they didn't want. — Derek Landy

There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread. — John Cage

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said.
"And what is that?"
"They are not true. — Cassandra Clare

Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said.
"They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while. — Cinda Williams Chima

They said it just happens once. That you only can love someone in that way once in a lifetime. That it can change your life when it ends. — Yuli Pritania

This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them. — Terry Pratchett

Bless their dear little hearts!" said Mrs. Mann with emotion, "they're as well as can be, the dears! Of course, except the two that died last week. — Charles Dickens

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey

Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud. Everyone knows that. — Emily Horner

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram

Remember that, she said to herself; remember that in your dealings with others - they may be dying. — Alexander McCall Smith

Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them. — Alice Walker

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all. — Neil Gaiman

I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings. — Gert Loveday

A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations. — Curtis Sittenfeld

They're so brave," she said.
"They're all dead."
"Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully. — Orson Scott Card

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be. — M.R.C. Kasasian

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me. — John Green

It's the ones who don't tell you they are informing," he said, "that you have to worry about. — Kati Marton

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they? — Susanna Clarke

As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. — Becky Chambers

My mother always said that God made kids cute when they were little so parents could cling to those memories when they turned into teenagers. — Ruth Cardello

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!' — Olesya Rulin

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. — Elias Canetti

Scars are like years, he said: one follows another and it's all of them together that make a person who they are. — Robert Seethaler

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. — Anthony Esolen

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.' — Steven R. McQueen

Rincewind trudged back up the beach. "The trouble is," he said, "is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. — Terry Pratchett

They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled. — Edward W. Said

A man of principles," Jesse said.

"People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy. — Ron Hansen

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing. — Drake

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. — Walter Bagehot

I'll be a Winterborne," Helen said calmly. "They should worry about that I'll think of them. — Lisa Kleypas

Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. — David Macbeth Moir

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk. — Hillary Clinton

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself. — George Osborne

If they do anything to me, just skin them alive, sweetheart," I said.
"I'll do more than that
I'll make them eat their own skins. — Sergei Lukyanenko

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion. — Ben Aaronovitch

It hurts," Nellie said.
"I know," Reagan said. "No pain, no gain."
"Do you think they made that expression up for bullet wounds? — Jude Watson

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do! — Bernadette Devlin

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves. — Saul Bellow

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50. — Matt Smith

You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do. — China Mieville

After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them. — Steve Goodier

Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. — Neil Gaiman

Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I — Anne Rice

This is a country that can't even make toasters," he said. "And while they can make missiles, they can't feed their population. — David E. Hoffman

He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces. — John Fowles

That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone. — Meg Rosoff

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all. — Frank Thomas

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence. — Dick Morris

This isn't your redemption Noah, she said, her eyes so passionate with emotion that they seemed to glow. — Nalini Singh

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. Hullo. Nice to see you. — Tove Jansson

You're a good one, Jackie Fierro," they said. "And that makes the world a dangerous place for you. — Joseph Fink

What a terrifying thought," he'd said, "that they're just as fucked-up as we are. — Jason M. Hough

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false. — Leo Tolstoy

Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that's kind of the point of them. — Jojo Moyes

Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly. — Julie McElwain

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves. — Kirsty Murray

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak. — Charles Caleb Colton

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone. — Ann Brashares

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true. — John Cassavetes

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. — Andrew Young

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet. — Aldous Huxley

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people." — Richard Pryor

I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you can do things.' — Emily Ratajkowski

Drag all the skeletons out where we can see 'em," she said softly."That's the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light. — Cate Tiernan

Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?"
"No."
"No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind. — Helen Oyeyemi

Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way. — Arlene Eisenbise

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere. — Richard Paul Evans

Well, all my friends are gone,' Seth said. 'But they did all gang up and murder me. True friends don't really do that. — J.L. Bryan

They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant. — Steve Martin