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“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”

Men Said Two Hands Sleep Rooms Window Accounts Asking Hotel Guests Jumping Joints Hand In Hand Downtown Clerks Ritz

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”

Children Two Character Four Huge Asking Casts Appeals These Days Publishers Maximum

Author:Kirby Larson

“The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain and agony. Saturday was the day of doubt and confusion and misery. But Easter, that Sunday, was the day of hope and joy and victory. You will face these three days over and over and over in your lifetime. And when you do, you’ll find yourself asking, as I did, three fundamental questions: Number one, what do I do in my days of pain? Two, how do I get through my days of doubt and confusion? Three, how do I get to the days of joy and victory? The answer is Easter.”

“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Stills Two Five Give Me Asking Dues Five Years More Time Composer Symphony Two Days

Author:Darren Criss

“My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.”

Ifs Said Two Remember Speak Half Lessons Asking Take Me Ballet Mum Remember Me

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.”

Thinking Two College Asking Arguing Two Things Asking Questions

Author:Karen Hughes

“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”

Knows Want Mean Two Different Wisdom America Past Reading Asks Speak Voice Knowledge Creativity History Citizens Asking Originals Quitting Historian Monarchy

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.”

Two Sides Love Is Stronger Asking Two Sides Love Is Like Exhaling

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.”

I Can Two Today Faces Reading Hours Prayer Meditation Praying Blessing Pure Enlightenment Let Me Asking Gods Will Setting Settings Get Up Refreshing

Author:Bonar Law

“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Art Two Lasts Asks Half Knowing He Man Drink Creatures Asking Wine Cups Branches Two Things Mistaken Mold Inscriptions

Author:Rumi

“One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?”

Trying Two Reason Together Space Groups Painting Claims Asking

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?”

People Thinking World Mean Doe Two Different Reason Reality Young Asking Backgrounds Buddhist Baptists Pluralism Different Backgrounds

Author:Eboo Patel

“But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.”

Thinking Giving Two Helping Stories Pieces Asking Core Love Story Asking For Help Giving Help Lorraine

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.”

Two Waiting Prayer Battle Asking Preparation Working It Definite Folds

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?”

Ifs Want Firsts Wells May Persons Two Different Reason Helping Seems Asks Force Influence Exercise Behavior Asking Threat Punishment Evident Unlikely

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.”

“With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.”

Trying Years Heart Two Film Next Prayer Figures Seasons Asking Two Years Asking God

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“I have no problem in asking a diner to leave for two reasons: 1. If they are rude to my staff. No one has that right. If we make a mistake, allow us to rectify it. 2. If they are loud and abusive at the table. They have no regard or respect for the other diners, who may have worked very hard to save up their cash to afford your prices.”

Ifs May Two Hard Reason Problem Mistake Asking Regard Tables Loud Cash Staff Rude No Problem Abusive Diners Rectify

Author:Marco Pierre White

“When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.”

Knows Littles Two Feelings Home Kids Law Mother House Stuff White Doors Dog Asking White House Wrestling Little Kid In-laws Upstairs Pajamas Mother In Law

Author:Barack Obama

“The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.”

Firsts Two Three Hundred Letters Asking Unions Response Newspapers Massachusetts

Author:Tom Wolfe

“But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.”

Ifs Two Moments Eye Devil Advantage Mercy Miracle Asking Agree Divorce Grants Leap Uneasy Breach True Faith Inattention

Author:Michel Faber

“I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.”

Knows Want Firsts Two Hands Wanted Answers Rooms Love You Asking Two Things Do You Know I Want You Living Room

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.”

People Knows Way Needs May Two Helping Choices Deals Issues Forgiveness Asking Forgiving Deeper Being True Poison Pushing Allowing Bitterness Two Ways Crossroads Burying Asking God Pushing It

Author:Joel Osteen

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.”

Made Said Two Wanted Lasts Remember Dies Father Differences Four Happened Tree Journey Minutes Ocean Hundred Asking Miles Thirty Tunnels Miles Away Prettiest Canopy Breezy Jellicoe Road Shangri

Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

“I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.”

Thinking Two Asking Silver

Author:Jenny Valentine

“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

Ifs Knows Life Two Life Is Tomorrow Asking Complaining Yesterday Proportion Good Life Biblical Two Days Stop Complaining

Book:For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”

Littles Two Might Fool Asking Horrible

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class”

Ifs Two Reason Class Morning Late Asking Bowls Cereal Vamp Zoey Redbird Socs

Author:P. C. Cast

“There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.”

Stills Two Whole Moments Facts Lasts Joy Wish Greater Right Now Understood And Love Asking Cells Doomed Galaxy Pins Anything Is Possible Entirety

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.”

Ifs Mean Two Together Rooms Asking Fellows Sentences Absurd Two Things Knives Carving

Book:The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)

Source: The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.”

Ifs Littles Two Girl Grows Walks Late Asking Like Me Beard Halt Cabins Roosters Facetious

Author:John Flanagan

“The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.”

Ifs Mean Two Lasts Comfort Illusion Asking Tonight Lanes Illusion Of Control

Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”

Kind Two Regret Pure Asking Sorry Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

“I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.”

Ifs Children Two Feet Asking Tall Tobias

Author:Veronica Roth

“Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.”

Two Different Soul God Spirituality Asking Different Things Science And Religion Compatible Two Different Things Plumbing

Author:Michael Shermer

“That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One would find, I am sure, that no two of them would exactly agree. Indeed, no two scientists work and think in just the same ways.”

Thinking Way Two Might Science Hard Work Scientist Asking Agree Method Agreement Scientific Method

Book:Science in the Making

Source: Science in the Making

“There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.”

Men Giving Should Two Opinion Advice Asking Determined Pursue Two Things Giving Advice

Author:Norm MacDonald

“People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.”

People Way Should Stills I Can Two Half Citizens Asking Aging Retiring Should I Senior Two Ways Senior Citizen

Author:George Burns

“My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.”

Two Dream Today Women Vote Asking Grass Gates Babe Electorate Greener Piglet Grass Is Always Greener Sheepdogs

Author:Wendy Harmer