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“Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Earth Humanity Names Quality Taken Crime Degrees Committed Enormous Judged Truthful Extensions Constructs Deities Mistrust Down To Earth Human Qualities

Author:Wole Soyinka

“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.”

“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”

Made Law Values Sides Enormous Psychological Abandoned Cloaks Legality

Book:Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

Source: Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

“Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.”

House Standing Rose Boundaries Shoulders Enormous Upset Giants Laughed Lungs Fur Roaring Capes

Author:Ilona Andrews

“At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.”

Men World Trying Moments Problem Born Numbers Men And Women Intelligent Enormous Faster Goodwill Intelligent Man

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?”

Romance Ears Caught Radio Enormous Impression Seats Speakers Leather Gags Nellie Gomez

Author:Rick Riordan

“The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.”

People Perfection Enormous Clarity Length Beads Sinkholes

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”

Next Waiting Differences Audience Failing Enormous Waiting For You

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.”

World Years Wells Country Done Lasts Economy Example Amount Couple Investment Enormous Britain Automobile Good Examples Aerospace

Author:Vince Cable

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”

Needs Mind Wisdom Emotional Mass Clean Enormous Our Time Rubbish Clutter

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.”

Shows Wanted Film Stars Horror Enormous Celebrate Celebration Unafraid Admirer Great Film Film Stars Macabre

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.”

Growing Enormous Crush Immense

Author:Anais Nin

“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”

“Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.”

Trying Care Animal Talking Enormous Spokes Wild Animal Jem

Author:Cassandra Clare

“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”

Writing Children Stills Book Enough Lost Amount Adults Enormous Children Book Childishness

Author:Roald Dahl

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

Years Kind Two Self Bigs Faces Sides Dark Struggle Taken Tears Brother Victory Finished Enormous Noses Breasts Forty Stubborn Misunderstanding Exile Gin Moustache

Author:George Orwell

“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”

“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”

“Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.”

“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”

World Art Two Book Age Able Three Ability Company Materials Speed Enormous Occasions Upset Remove Judged Surroundings Inner World Desolate

Book:Girl At The Lion d'Or

Source: Girl At The Lion d'Or

“We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!”

People Medical Heal Enormous Cures Entity

Author:Paddy Chayefsky

“Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.”

“Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.”

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

“Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?”

Planets Huge Mountain Stones Enormous

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

Ifs Risk Please Waste Increase Enormous Our Time

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!”

Enormous Wardrobe Lion Witch Wardrobe Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

“You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.”

People Knows Years Littles Bigs Kids Three Walks Known Five Eating Legs Enormous Pounds Three Years Little Kid Turkeys Disneyland Three Year Olds

Author:Steve Carell

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Wells Inspiration Seems Wealth Poor Powerful Inspire Enormous Instant Most Powerful Assets Rich And Poor Rich Poor

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.”

Want I Can Ideas Suffering Strong Born Poet Faults Senses Enormous Incapable Explaining Seers

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”

Has Beens Book Seems Consciousness Attitude Our Lives Influence One Day Leaving Disappear Enormous Summing Up

Author:Anais Nin

“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”

Enormous Fats Call Me Jace City Of Ashes

Author:Cassandra Clare

“He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.”

Looks Said Able Wanted Joy Behinds Rich Pieces Sweet Like You Mouths Bars Enormous Chocolate Bites Sheer Charlie Back Again Shopkeepers Chocolate Bars Something Sweet

Author:Roald Dahl

“It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.”

Way Turns Loses Fans Huge Green Rage Monsters Enormous Drs Banner Avengers

Author:Joss Whedon

“Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.”

“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”

Dream Illusion Wake Up Credit Debt Enormous Cash Hangover

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream.”

World Dream Hands Form Fall Loses Sleep Consciousness Struggle Greater Definitions Absence Enormous Get Up Have Courage Vastness Before I Fall Definition Of Happiness

Author:Clarice Lispector

“Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.”

Knows World Feels Kind Whole Facts Bigs Sides Tree Modern Car Fronts Enormous Fake Palms Resorts Sleepy Palm Trees Polynesians

Author:Meg Cabot

“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”

Men Believe Sometimes Wish Virtue Comfort Saint Enormous Heroic

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”

Art Enormous Bliss

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.”

Light Stars Black Water Dark Clear Impossible Ocean Blue Depth Bottom Tiny Miles Enormous Sand Grain Lit Colony Sparkling Grains Of Sand Twinkling Clear Water Dark Blue

Author:Fuyumi Ono

“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”

Knows Bigs Know How Enormous Holes Emptiness

Book:Time and Again

Source: Time and Again

“The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.”

Long Answers Perfect Rooms Quiet Library Enormous Metals Shelves

Author:Daniel Handler

“I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.”

Thinking Years Book Dies Born Forever Information Son Library Enormous Pounds Estates Dukes

Author:Richard Francis Burton

“There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.”

Want Giving Kind Enough Realizing Deals Rich Cold Hot Enormous Weather All Kinds Apples Appetite Dishes Pie Delicious Crave Stew Apple Pie Cold Weather

Book:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.”

Bigs America Fighting Can Do Teach Cost Gun Constant Defense Priorities Stealing Enormous Artificial Versus Big Picture Primacy

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

Looks Self My Own Wonder Mirrors Enormous Manage

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—”

Source: Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel

“She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?”

Thinking Men Mother Force Lord Brother Balls Sake Enormous Eyebrows Grown Man Younger Brother

Book:The Season

Source: The Season

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