Dan Simmons Quotes
'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'Dan Simmons
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
Qandeel Baloch -
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson -
I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
Abraham Verghese -
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
Hailey Gates -
I love going to second-hand stores.
Victoria Justice -
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
Maeve Binchy
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing -
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
E. L. Konigsburg -
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan -
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Orrin Hatch -
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
Dada Vaswani -
Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
Jack Falahee
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
Barton Gellman -
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume -
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
M.I.A. -
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Nathan Outteridge -
You need to know when to surrender the album.
Bebe Rexha -
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Patricia Polacco
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
Omar Khayyam -
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
Napoleon Hill -
It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.
Katie Kitamura -
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.
Pam Allyn -
'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'
Dan Simmons