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“My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.”

Ifs Watches Dangerous Type News Locals My Sister Investigation Shelves Headlines Retaining Eyewitnesses

Author:David Sedaris

“All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.”

Men May Has Beens States Walks Poor Rich Locals Wealthy Desperation Blindness Upbringing Helplessness Without Hope

Author:John Green

“When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.”

Source: Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

“We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.”

Ifs Problem Turns Chance Watches Tvs News Locals Idiot Censorship Local News

Author:Ray Bradbury

“They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?" asked Hamilton. "It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.”

House Building Lows Locals Hills Gray Squares Opera Rolling Hollow Moonlight Hamilton Opera House Rolling Hills

Book:The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

“I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Sometimes Government Process Machines Locals Labour Target Bullied Local Government

Author:David Cameron

“I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.”

“The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.”

Writing Humans Book Earth Culture Locals Manuals Spaceships Operators Human Will

Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.”

People Water Blame Locals Freak Gorgeous Drank Bottled Water Pretty People

Book:Never to Sleep

Source: Never to Sleep

“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”

“I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong”

Men Enough Form Next Belief Religious Fool Lessons Sake Locals Belief In God Clergymen Tenants

Book:Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel

Source: Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel

“Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.”

Made Sides Numbers Talking Five Wife Feet Ten Hundred Standing Locals Height Reaching Pounds Tall Chests Valentine Skinny Sock Embodiment Overweight Jake Sheriffs Girth

Author:Karin Slaughter

“I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.”

“Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.”

Ifs Children Might Eye Winning Streets Paper Locals Versus Avoided Anna Isaac Alphas Caption Sharp Eyes

Book:Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.”

Thinking Years Two Book Week Tragedy Library Locals Rhythm Two Years Locks Erotic Translations Polished Gluttony Old Books Voluptuous

Author:Tana French

“Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.”

Way Heart Felt Broken Locals Organs Inexpensive

Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.”

Locals Friendly Omniscient Barmen

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a few moments time stops and the mind does not function. For a few moments you do not know who you are. Then it is a total orgasm.”

Knows Men Mind Doe Whole Moments Body Moving Lost Achieve Function Who You Are Possession Finished Locals Abyss Confined Ripple Whirlpools

Author:Rajneesh

“You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten”

Forget Locals Darling Psychopath

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.”

World Trying Years Use Speak Church Audience Teaching Modern Lessons Happenings Locals Technological Testament New Testament Headlines Old Testament Interfaith Local Church

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.”

People Years Mind Littles Persons I Can Seems Today Used Felt Locals Ice Senior Polite Blades Juniors Skating Meek Skates My Boyfriend Senior Year Ice Skating Twirling

Author:Gayle Forman

“Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-expenses-paid visit to your local police station.”

Form Winning Dog Behavior Paid Police Boxes Locals Carrie Stations Expenses Invited Suspicious Copper Bingo

Book:Whispers Under Ground

Source: Whispers Under Ground

“I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.”

Art Misery Locals Treatment Melancholy

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.”

Ifs Want Needs Long Said Home Night Guy Wife Middle Ten Shots Rounds Locals Shooting Range Hunting Rifles Middle Of The Night Pistols Snacks Fridges Invaders Gals Shotguns Revolver Shooting Range

Author:Stephen King

“If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.”

Ifs Wells Children States Happens America Given Answers Education Locals Agency More Money Rotten Liable Hamburgers

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)”

“Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit." I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.”

Thinking Giving Said Used Dog Lessons Training Locals Code Experts Units Trainers Stealth Chihuahua

Book:The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

“Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.”

Thinking Humans Contrary Locals Hanging Out Pubs

Book:Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

Source: Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

“I looked where he was tapping. "Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead" Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My heart filling with dread, i took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?”

Heart Hands School Girl Found Missing My Heart Paper Locals Dread Filling Tapping

Book:The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

“Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.”

Book Running Wanted Law Spirit Courses Evil Paper Locals Scholar Spares Kill Me Deities Cemetery Spare Time Evil Spirits

Author:Meg Cabot

“Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.”

Children Community Library Locals

Author:Nick Cave

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.”

Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

“In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.”

Looks May Mean Doe Might Able Peace Sun Conditions Spring Rain Seeds Locals Hills France Heat Farmers April July Springtime Sunflower

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”

Ifs Culture Peace Ability Common Our Lives Society Achieve Masters Achievement Diversity Blessed Locals Brotherhood Goodwill Unity In Diversity Human Diversity

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.”

“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”

Firsts Politics Space Internet Locals Amendments First Amendment Ordinances Cyberspace

Author:John Perry Barlow

“As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.”

Humans Political Politics Community Levels Responsibility Democracy Citizens Involved Affair Locals Voting And Democracy Love And Responsibility Political Responsibility

Author:Paul Wellstone

“Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.”

Long Whole Religion Happened Events Late Capable Dating Locals Too Late Empires Historian Ads Governors Screws Luke Screw Ups Augustus Census Herod Augustus Caesar

Author:Richard Dawkins

“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?”

“As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.”

“The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.”

Law Worship Unity Locals Again And Again Weary

Book:Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica

“It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.”

Source: The Age of Paradox

“Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned, the information can be woefully inadequate, they are sometimes seen to be opaque and their advertising is clearly recognised as not being of a global standard. For local brands, quality, innovation and transparency are critical hills to climb.”

“There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.”

People World Love Problem Wisdom Spirit Cities Meditation Solutions Yoga Locals Realization Wellness World Problems

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.”

“Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.”

Ends Country Helping Community Wealth Support Share Childhood Resources Program Organization Stronger Prepared Hunger Hungry Locals Our Country Abundance Excess Commodity Food Banks

Author:John Travolta

“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I'm not sure about these cookies ... They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever.”

Election Locals Not Sure Cookies Bakeries

Author:Mitt Romney

“My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.”

States Wealth Levels Taxes Income Locals

Author:Stephen A. Schwarzman

“Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Earth Community Space Answers Half Taken Photograph Locals Neighborhood Our Community Outer Space Right Answers Questions And Answers Amish

Author:Wendell Berry

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