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The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same.
— Jeanne DuPrau
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
— Herbert Hoover
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
— Ian Anderson
fighters couldn't do were bite or eye gauge.
— Martin Lastrapes
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
— Elizabeth Brundage
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
— William Hazlitt
They're in trouble, Kaz had thought. Or you were dead wrong about Matthias, and you're about to pay for all of those talking tree jokes.
— Leigh Bardugo
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
— Alice Walker
It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.
— Gregory David Roberts
The baby hadn't cried or wanted food, which was good because all I had were a few Tic Tacs and a can of Red Bull.
— Lexi Blake
People were people, and they'd double-cross you or die on you no matter where they were from.
— Delilah S. Dawson
Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.
— Larry McMurtry
Bullets like cocks, came in a variety of different sizes and length but were all more or less the same shape.
— Nicole Castle
When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting.
— Jeff Wheeler
Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.
— Hiroshi Yamamoto
I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...
— Jonathan Dunne
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
I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.
— Saoirse Ronan
Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.
— Benjamin Cheever
Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
There were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away.
— Alice Munro
I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
— Victoria Chang
Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes.
— Howard Zinn
From country to country as if it were an anchor, or the memory of dropping the first anchor.
— Kim Thuy
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
— Emily Dickinson
We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
What we do is bring them out in the open, show people what we once were, what we still can be.
— Elbert Or
If the cycle of mating heat was anything like the desire clawing at him, he and Savannah were in for either a difficult time or a glorious one.
— Christine Feehan
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.
— Sierra Hill
Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated? — Stewart O'Nan
all people, finally
complicated? — Stewart O'Nan
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
— George P. Shultz
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
— Christopher Hitchens
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
— Nolan Bushnell
My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
— Alan Wilson
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.
— LeCrae
Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
— Kristian Bush
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
— Jack Nicholson
I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
— Kiefer Sutherland
She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.
— Virginia Woolf
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
— Erwin Chargaff
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
— Martin Luther
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
— Bobby Knight
Yeah, uh-huh." "OK. Were you coming from a store or something when you saw him?" "Naw, I was like, coming from the benches." "And where was he?
— Richard Price
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
— Benjamin Franklin
I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
— James Marsden
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
— Mickey Mantle
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
— Rodney Alexander
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
— Jason Mraz
Never question your life or its purpose. You were created for a reason. Make it a good one. Never add to the destruction of the world.
— Krystal Volney
Tell me a legend," he said out of nowhere, and he realised they were making stories of each other, or themselves.
— Matthew Salesses
Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.
— Roberto Bolano
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
I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
— Sandra Bullock
We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.
— Donna Brazile
Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple
— Johnny Basham
They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him.
— Richard Yates
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
He needed to stop acting like we were more than friends or clue me in on what he was up to. "I'm
— Donna Augustine
Beer or three. My nerves were still singing from the morning.
— Gillian Flynn
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.
— Pele
I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.
— Mitch Hedberg
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
— David Mitchell