Willa Cather Quotes
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
Willa Cather
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
Randi Weingarten
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
Abby Wambach
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
Walter Dean Myers
Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
Mandy Moore
What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano
I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
Victoria Pendleton
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen
I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
Navid Negahban
You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
Charles Koch
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
Virginia Woolf
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Eric Reed Boucher
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
Willa Cather