A Quotes
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“And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.”
“And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.”
“And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!”
Source: Ad Hoc at Home
“And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.”
Source: Poems of Nazim Hikmet
“And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that.”
“And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.”
“And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.”
“And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.”
“And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good. i mean--you look brave. Dauntless." His eyes skirt mine, and he scratches the back of his head. The silence grows between us. It was a nice thing to say, but he acts like it means more than just words. I hope I am wrong. I could not be attracted to Al-- I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile. I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension.”
“And don't put a rose in my hand. Put a slim-jim in it. Send me to heaven with a slim-jim!”
“And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.”
“And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.”
“And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”
“And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.”
“And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”
“And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!”
“and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?”
Source: On the Road
“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
Source: The Underland Chronicles #5: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have on violence.”
“And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.”
“And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!”
“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”
Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line.” “You’re a treasure, Bob.” She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.”
Source: Happy Ever After
“And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!”
“And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch”
“And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“And down she walked along the street,
A handsome lad she hoped to meet
And sore by dawn were her dainty feet
But all the boys were gay.”
“And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“And dressed her [Madonna] up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.”
“And drugs, drugs weren’t the problem. They were the only thing that made the pain quiet. They were routine. Ritual. Language. They gave rhythm to the day. They kept the ghosts at bay. They made it easier to laugh, to cry, to forget. They were the thing we had in common when nothing else made sense.
I didn’t start using because I wanted to destroy myself. I started because I already felt destroyed. Drugs gave me something to belong to. A pattern. A purpose. A pause button on the chaos in my chest. And once it became a lifestyle, it was hard to imagine anything else.”
Source: Whiskey Chaser
“And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.”
“And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.”
“And during.. sometimes you wanna just be you with someone who knows all your secrets”
“And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.”
“And each and every compliment issued by the duke had been just singular enough to kindle her imagination. Calculated to intrigue, to imply that he saw her in detail, that touching her was a pleasure.
'Unconscionably,' he'd said. As though being soft was something she did specifically to torment him. It had almost been an accusation, a dare. She'd received more than her share of compliments her life. But for some reason the duke made her feel very much like a...
Like a 'woman.'
Purely and simply.
It had nothing to do with love. Or with marriage. He was thinking of her in terms of... of sensual pleasure.”
Source: What I Did for a Duke
“And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?”
Source: Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison
“And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.”
“And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.”
“And each day life will bestow more blessings upon us if we are kind.”
“And each day when Poseidon & his entourage of Goddesses & Nymphs arrived, Hera would come with them. And as the amphora began to be filled with Poseidon`s seed, Hera would report that her amphora would take much longer to fill, as Zeus, her husband, was not a willing donor. But she had in fact been cheating by instructing her daughters, Hebe & Eilithyia, to empty the amphora filled with their father`s seed into the rivers & streams, lakes & ponds, & the springs in the woods, so that the amphora would never be full, as this was the only way she could continue to keep her husband`s sex drive in check, & with good reason to do so.”
“And each fairy is represented by a color?" Chiara asked.
"My favorite color was always violet," Agata said, "and Mirabella's gold. They started off as nicknames, but they seem to have stuck."
Peri, the Orange Fairy, stepped forward and offered her a friendly grin. "Blue is available, in case you were wondering. Agata told us it's your favorite. We sense the color's been waiting for you.”
Source: When You Wish Upon a Star
“And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.”
Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose
“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”
“And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.”
Source: Lady Oracle
“And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.”
“And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.”
“And each one of them has a redemptive message. Blood Bayou's redemptive message is (about forgiveness). Can you forgive somebody? Can you come back (from the hurt)? (Can you find_ your way back from it. Can people change and can you forgive somebody?”