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“One doesn't regret the things that we have failed to succeed to do,
One regrets the things that we have failed to try to do.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“People can drift far away from themselves but eventually tether again.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“Being a leading power couple means not only submitting to media scrutiny but also commanding coverage. To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being one member of a leading couple.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“I uncover hidden truths, I don’t pander to other’s notions of how the events of the world should come out.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“Nathan ran a palm over his forehead. He was on a mission with Taliban terrorists. His old sarge would be puking in his grave. He’d always maintained that the enemy of your enemy was still your fucking enemy.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Remember to celebrate the small accomplishments along your journey because they will provide the support needed when the road gets rocky. ”
― C. Toni Graham

“On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“I am me, a unique individual who aspires to be happier than she already is.”
― L.C. Conn

“He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss).”
― David McCullough, Truman

“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent without leave, scram, vamoose, whatever; suppose that it's then, and only then, that you're actually free to act! To lead the life nobody tells you how to live, or when, or why. In which nobody orders you to go forth and die for them, or for god, or comes to get you because you broke one of the rules, or because you're one of the people who are, for reasons which unfortunately you can't be given, simply not allowed. Suppose you've got to go through the feeling of being lost, into the chaos and beyond; you've got to accept the loneliness, the wild panic of losing your moorings, the vertiginous terror of the horizon spinning round and round like the edge of a coin tossed in the air.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
― George R.R. Martin

“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
― Arthur Miller, After the Fall

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Just to get through life was no ambition. It was the opposite of ambition.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Asa, as I Knew Him

“History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.”
― Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

“There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“sign of”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in America. It would be taller than tress and it would move like corn in the wind. ("The Pool”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“suppose that in America everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.”
― John Grisham, The Guardians

“It is not true, always, my dear,' said he, 'that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach; at least it’s not the only way.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“Think they’re going to forget that?”
“You asked my opinion. Don’t like it? Go fuck yourself.”
“You’re such a delicate flower, Annie. How’d you end up NASA’s director of media relations?”
“Beats the fuck out of me,” Annie said.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“إن العيش من دون إدراك معنى العالم هو أشبه بالتجول فى مكتبة عظيمة من دون لمس الكتب.”
― دان براون, The Lost Symbol

“We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“We can’t force civilians to cooperate. And we certainly wouldn’t be sabotaging your future job prospects. Forever.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, I Am Titanium