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“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.”

Way Want Hard Government Left Growth Economy Picks Expensive Devices Loser Banking Stripes Hard Way

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.”

People Knows Men Left Roles Drug Picks Addict Drug Addict

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series”

May Facts Left Numbers Picks Series Eight Accidents Scales Pairs Spirals Winding Up

Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

Source: Sixty stories

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.”

Years Kind Two Real Left Week Picks Two Years Real Friends

Book:The One Plus One

Source: The One Plus One

“In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.”

Thinking Film Left Influence Industry Picks Visible Vans Film Industry Jackie Van Damme

Author:Scott Adkins

“These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.”

Should Book Left Forget Childhood Effects Picks Trauma These Days Experts Great Men Childhood Trauma

Author:Peter Straub

“LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.”

Trying Left Sides Knowing Picks Weakness Likes Uncomfortable Championship Nba Championships Dribble

Author:Andre Iguodala

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.”

People Facts Left Paper Picks Injustice Centre Very Happy Outraged Scams

Author:Sean Bean

“At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.”

World Has Beens Might Left Behinds Risk Team Objects Safe Picks Constant Distance Cups Bombs Climbs Bags Rough Items Left Behind Consuming Stairs World Cup Terrain Time Consuming

Author:Colin Angle

“This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit.”

Needs Littles Moments Political Left Levels Creative Figures Cost Elements Benefits Picks Clinton Little Things Biographies Strain License Arcs Junkie Very Famous

Author:James Ponsoldt

“I used to play the drums. When I was 11 I got my first professional job, I played drums in a cabary and played Elvis and stuff, I used to play left handed actually. Then I started to pick up the guitar when I was around 15, but I played the drums for a long time.”

Firsts Long Play Jobs Used Left Stuff Long Time Picks Guitar Left Handed

Author:Francis Dunnery

“It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."”

“My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.”

Film Song Left Causes Written Picks Absolutes Cinema One Time Listeners Halfway Nudge Favorite Song Where We Came

Author:James Hunter

“It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.”

World May Two War School Found Left Projects Picks Surprise War Of The Worlds Fascinating World War Two

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.”

Thinking Way Kind I Can Left Black Animal Car Wall Picks Seasons Filled Screens Satisfying Stakes Viewers Gang Adrenaline Zoos Charging Cliffhanger

Author:James Wolk

“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.”

People Thinking Three Left Special Havens Months Circumstances Picks Connections Honestly Twilight Three Months Special Things

Author:Ashley Greene

“I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.”

Character Left Middle Picks Regard Jew Desks Eastern Israeli Protagonists Personification

Author:Amos Oz

“Both [of my granddaughters] Octavia and Lavinia have May birthdays. I've just been birthday shopping with them. But the shopping has a budget. I say, "Okay, if you pick this out, then you'll have how much left?" I wait for them to do the calculation, and they'll say, "$18." And we stand there and talk about, hmm, is that sweater really worth that much? And the girls work it through.Doing that takes away some of the magic of money.”

Ifs May Girl Left Waiting Magic Picks Okay Budgets Working It Shopping Calculations Sweaters Hmm Granddaughter Lavinia

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.”

Wells Made Lost Left Bits Pieces Picks Grass Bits And Pieces

Author:Varg Vikernes

“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”

People Lasts Left Saws Our Lives Picks Tests Last Time

Author:Lisa See

“Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.”

Hands Able Left Skills Equal Picks Pockets Ambidextrous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.”

Ifs Way Left Mines Picks Horse Guides Good Horse

Book:Life and Adventures of

Source: Life and Adventures of

“There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.”

Ifs Littles Reason Dream Might Would Be Lying Night Hate Left Imagination Brain Wonder Seeing Possibility Position Type Picks Bigger Average Pens Keyboards

Author:Obert Skye

“I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Book Moments Facts Reading Left Deals Imagine Months Picks First Time Let Me Prison Library Inevitable New World Wedges Bunk

Author:Alex Haley

“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.”

Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on.”

Ifs World Looks Spirit House Left Sides Pleasure Wind Goes On Picks Fingers Shoes Flesh Passing Passings Sat Apples Brown Worn Mars Tangible Deck Passing Through Orchard Housekeeping

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.”

Stills Use Hands Fall Left Given Tears Arms Picks Green Blow Spokes Shields Heed Left Hand Eowyn

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

Matter Lasts Left Knowing Acceptance Picks Mercy Release Severe Knowing The Truth

Book:The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”

Thinking Humans Heart Sometimes Fall Left Simple Pieces Picks Edges Shelves Human Heart

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)”

Source: Fallout

“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”

Knows Years Young Left Walks Picks Twenties Eight

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.”

Feels Looks Sometimes Left Interesting Secret Dog Picks Look At Me Leaving Me Me Alone Left Alone Leave Me Alone Reptiles Pick Me Pick Me Up Just Leave Me Alone

Author:Nicolas Cage

“[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made of lead. Like I can't even think about starting to care about anything. Like I either wish that they were all dead, or I was, because I can't stand the pull of all that history between us. That's before I even pick up the phone. I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Made I Can Feelings Care Left Wish Picks Wake Up Tired Starting Phones Lungs Because I Can

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.”

Ifs Needs Believe I Can Real Stories Left Chance Picks Real Life

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.”

Thinking Knows I Can Reason Names Left Sound Voice Picks Lips Reason Why New Places Tris Lauren Rumble

Book:The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

“An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.”

Looks Faces Left Hurt Tree Arms Picks Window Woods Laughed Swings It Hurts Initials Unbearable Jars

Author:James Patterson

“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”

People World Want Choices Courses Left Pieces Picks Disappear

Author:Lauren Oliver

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