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“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.”

“Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.”

Ifs Action Doors Muslim Postponing Replying

Author:Sufyan al-Thawri

“Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.”

Home Doors Stranger Contracts Guests Athens Replying

Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

“[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.”

I Can Matter Remember Names Sex Animal Pistols Presenter Sex Pistols Replying

Author:John Lydon

“And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.”

Thinking Wells Asks Heaven Enjoy Baptists Narrow-minded Going To Heaven Replying

Author:Mike Huckabee

“One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!'”

Wife Husband Raised Spouse Polygamy Replying

Book:The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

Source: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

“O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

Answers Clear Dying Sweet Blow Scar Echoes Purple Horns Cliffs Replying

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.”

Office Letters Busy Dozen Seekers Replying

Book:Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

“By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!”

Life Stupid Replying

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I can't figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can't tell who is saying something and who's replying to something. I don't know who the tweeter is and who's responding to the twit.”

Knows Way I Can Figures Responding Twits Replying

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.”

Persons Reason Able Grows Hours Minutes Television Wine Mail Single Person Replying

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.”

Source: Collected Poems

“If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."”

Ifs Love Life Feels Conditions Love You I Love You Funny Love Pistols Say I Love You I Love You Too Replying

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)”

Support Female Temptation Mail Sane Chasing Trash Replying

Book:Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

Source: Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

“To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.”

“"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."”

Thinking Sides Tools Futility Replying

Author:Steven Erikson

“Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which do you believe in, luck or Destiny?" Joe considered a moment befoe replying, "We make our own luck, Ludlow, by our actions and our state of mind. As such you control your own fate. Oney one thing is certain: None of us can escape the grave.”

Mind Believe States Moments Action Certain I Believe Destiny Fate One Thing Luck Graves State Of Mind Our Actions Replying

Author:F.E. Higgins

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.”

Ifs World Answers Alive Heard Return Depth Cease Flames Infamy Replying

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus's hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Alec drew him closer and kissed him. Magnus made a soft, pleased sound, and gripped the back of Alec's shirt, rucking it up, his fingers cool on Alec's spine. Alec leaned into him, pinning Magnus between the table and his own body. Not that Magnus seemed to mind. 'Come on,' Alec said against Magnus's ear. 'It's late. Let's go to bed.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear." "Play like a rock." "Now?" "No, if a bear starts eating you." I thought for a moment before replying. "Do they have screaming, sobbing rocks, 'cause that's probably what I'll be doing if a bear is gnawing my arm off." "It would be difficult to just lay there and be eaten alive, huh?" "Ya think?”

Ifs Thinking Play Moments Would Be Causes Difficult Break Alive Rocks Arms Bears Eating Lays Legs Sobbing Replying Break A Leg

Author:Darynda Jones

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?””

Thinking Wells Looks Mean Universe Replying

Book:Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)

Source: Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

Source: Interaction of Color

“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.”

“The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."”

“Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.”

I Can Hard Funny Lying Boxing Recognise Replying Recognise You

Author:Willie Pep