Ally Carter Quotes
That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace. The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?" "Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
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As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
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We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
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When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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The forest would absorb her, she thought, it would keep her until the future showed itself.
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If you ask me if I’m imagining it again, I’m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.” Michael raised his eyebrows and glanced at Eve. “He doesn’t sound crazy.” “Er,” she clarified, “crazier. He sounds like he’s back to normal, which is baseline crazy.
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Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
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Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.
