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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. — Frank Herbert

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety. — J.D. Stroube

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. — Randall Park

They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were, — Alice Miller

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all. — Jimmy Fallon

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

Disarray as they were pulled to their feet by their escorts. We — Bella Forrest

But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were. — Rohinton Mistry

Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley — Robert B. Parker

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies. — Carol Ryrie Brink

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. — Ernst Otto Fischer

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means. — Haruki Murakami

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! — Logan Pearsall Smith

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. — Alexander Chee

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected. — Adepero Oduye

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it. — Justin Timberlake

We've got somethin' that people look for their whole lives. We just found it when we were eight. — S.D. Hendrickson

Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage. — Alison Weir

Firestar and Dustpelt were dead; Graystripe and Sandstorm were the last remaining cats of their generation. — Erin Hunter

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

They loved God and their hearts were alive and there is nothing more gorgeous than that. — Stasi Eldredge

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission — Darnell Lamont Walker

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's — Harper Lee

If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends.
-Luke Skywalker — James Luceno

Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived. — Amanda Grange

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways. — Martin Scorsese

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives. — Sophie Hannah

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father. — Emile Lahoud

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity. — China Mieville

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out. — Greg Giraldo

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though. — Ashley Scott

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory. — Nicholas Sparks

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. — Calvin Trillin

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling. — John Travolta

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. — Harvey Milk

They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent. — Markus Zusak

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies. — Bruno Schulz

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead. — Ann Beattie

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others. — Pope Francis

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing. — Dara Horn

all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One — James Baldwin

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. — Edward Norton

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. — Brian Eno

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS. — Ernest Cline

People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land. — Michael Pollan

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked. — Thomas Hughes

He amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus — Christopher Hitchens

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

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. — Denis Waitley

Some people are just meant to break your heart, as if it were their sole mission here on earth to teach you not to fall in love with the wrong person. — Carmen Jenner

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day. — Seymour Stein

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion. — Jo Brand

Fewer and fewer of our progenitors were replicating themselves via the weird, squishy process to which they devoted their organs of entertainment. — Charles Stross

They had their beliefs, and those beliefs were stronger than any belief they had in him. — David Levithan

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons. — Max Tundra

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 fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood. — Tom Holland

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. — Albert Einstein

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. — Cory Booker

The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn — Alan Garner

Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away. — Flannery O'Connor

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life. — Elizabeth Charles

The Cossacks were led by their prince, Amazov, a legendary horseman and, Reed was relieved to find, "a most pleasant and helpful person. — Stephan Talty

I think I should be in mourning. Many brain cells were lost in the creation of that orgasm."
Trixie chuckled. "I appreciate their sacrifice. — Jocelynn Drake

The vamps had plans to make for the trip? Well, so did she. Backups for when their plans went to hell and her plans were all they had left. — D.B. Reynolds

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton

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

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. — Anonymous

Kids expected adults to show up in this part of their world. Because they were comfortable with us, introductions to their friends seemed natural. — Mark H. Senter III

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

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. — Melody Beattie

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless. — Louise Penny

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

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. — Eusebius

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives. — Carol Anshaw

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. — Lawana Blackwell

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

The Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten. — J.R.R. Tolkien

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them. — Eddie Floyd

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans. — Paul Singer

I don't think their mummy and daddy told them they were little sunbeams for Jesus. — Louise Rennison

Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led. — Karen Kingsbury

They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews. — Diet Eman

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See — Winston S. Churchill

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. — William Shakespeare

Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs. — Joey Badass

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. — Laurie R. King

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just — N. Scott Momaday

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. — Timothy Holme

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. — H.P. Lovecraft

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins