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Ten times did God test our forefathers, and they were not so much as once found to be perfect. Avoth d'Rab. Nathan, chap. 34. — Maurice H. Harris

Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle. — Hilary Mantel

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. — J.M. Barrie

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. — George Grosz

When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s. — Gerard Depardieu

If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding. — C.F.W. Walther

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. — Gaston Bachelard

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado! — Carlson Gracie

When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting. — Jeff Wheeler

We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us fix ourselves. — Chelsea M. Cameron

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence. — Sameh Elsayed

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you ... — Peter Shepherd

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. — Bill Paxton

If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. — R.v.m.

We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted. From my bedroom window I watched the world. And I was safe from the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We were not desperate for love, we were desperate for each other's love."

The first implies weakness-
the second only heaven — Michael Xavier

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. — Harry Seidler

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C.V. Wedgwood

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House. — C.S. Lewis

If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father. — Heather Demetrios

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not. — Aldous Huxley

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. — C.S. Lewis

She tried not to look mad - but she'd rather look mad than look like she'd spent all night thinking about how beautiful his lips were. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm not ashamed of who you are. And the only time I would look down on you is if I were helping you back up. — Belle Aurora

And perhaps it did not matter in what world she belonged if both worlds were marching in step. — Robin McKinley

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. — Vance Havner

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. — Eduardo Galeano

And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. — Richard Wright

another, and before long I realized the problem with our treatment philosophy. We were not treating the most — Phillips PT, Monie

If the world were perfect, then I would not exist. — Gavriil Stiharul

We were not pioneers ourselves, but we journeyed over old trails that were new to us, and with hearts open. Who shall distinguish? — J. Monroe Thorington

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain. — Toni Bentley

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead. — David Corn

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference. — Geraldine Brooks

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man. — Thomas Hardy

Yet, you were going to let me ... ?" "I told you I'm not very good at saying no. — Laurelin Paige

Did they look like psychos? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them - I don't give a fuck how crazy they are! — Seth Gecko

Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. — Prerna Kumar

She sighed and said, "Why not us? Who knows whether you were given this opportunity for such a time as this?"

-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal

{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

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

She explained that 'diamond friends' were better than plain old 'best friends' because diamonds were not only rare, they were forever. — Melanie Shawn

You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god — Anthony Burgess

And those who were seen smiling without any reason were thought to be insane by those who could not feel the love that existed in the air! — Anamika Mishra

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe. — Hugh Ross

Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods. — Amy Tan

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth. — Kelly Rowland

Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. — Patricia Highsmith

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely. — Stephenie Meyer

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. — Michael Symon

Maybe they were never meant to have more than just one night. After all, not everything can last. Not everything is supposed to mean something. — Jennifer E. Smith

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

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry. — Franco Harris

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing. — Terry Eagleton

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago. — Timothy Schaffert

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass

The RSS's Awadh Prant Sanghchalak Prabhu Narayan Srivastava on Friday said Christians and Muslims were not to blame for the conversion of Hindus. — Anonymous

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks. — Pele

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. — Henry Ford

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were. — Brad Warner

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he — Michael Connelly

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. — Marya Hornbacher

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect. — Chris Webber

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. — Christopher Hitchens

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be. — Lauren Kate

As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing. — J.R. Ward

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. — Nicolas Chamfort

Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Even if the mind were not, its laws would be! — Albert Camus

We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good. — Eshkol Nevo

I do not say there were no hurts. / I say they mattered less than love. — Jane Merchant

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion. — Noel Carroll

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so. — Amy Tan

That's not the one you were thinking of?"
"No." There was accusation in her voice. "Mine was different, — Lorrie Moore

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others. — Max Anders

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff. — Brandon Sanderson

I could not help feeling that they were evil things
mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
— H.P. Lovecraft

Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. — George Herbert

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. — Laura Lee Guhrke

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. — Vaddey Ratner

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me. — Donna Brazile

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? — Robert F. Kennedy

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests. — Thomas Jefferson

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not. — Richard Bachman

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. — Nadeem Aslam

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand. — Cormac McCarthy

Holy shit, Ty-Ty, you were not wrong. He ... is ... hawt. — Kristen Ashley

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth. — Harbhajan Singh

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. — Margot Kidder

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed. — Bobby Knight

I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not - I'd read it first. — Will Schwalbe