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“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

Book Ends Might Order Interest Gone Return Reader Equal Kitchen Organized Hops Logical Bus Replaced Bathroom Sister Tourists

Author:Eleanor Brown

“All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky.”

Life Is Left Walks Gone Sky Fields Return Glory Sacred Clouds Creator Grieving Affirmation Trails Lilies Stardust

Author:John Harricharan

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.”

People Ifs Knows Next Hours Sleep Sun Gone Return Activity Losing Command Unconscious Bizarre Going To Sleep Resumes

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.”

Home Artist Certain Teach Gone Share Return Discipline Skills Independence Horizon Mentor Peers Here I Am New Artists Skills And Knowledge

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.”

Want Guy Gone Records Fans Return Investment Virgins

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.”

May Gone Knowing Sea Mines Return Summer Spring Bird Rose Melody Robins

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.”

Men World Way War Enough Care Young Winning Numbers Gone Return Men And Women Soldier Harm Obligation Secure Young Man Shade Troops Solemn Fudge

Author:Barack Obama

“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”

Ifs Trying Long Has Beens Moments Remember Lying Names Gone Return Presses Familiar Instant Breasts Forgiven Strokes Betrayed

Author:Roger Zelazny

“You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.”

World Character Home Dream Gone Loneliness Adventure Return Normal Aspect Longing Probability Occasional Vikings Homesickness

Author:Agatha Christie

“The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.”

States Today Gone Return Tomorrow Coffee Pot Tides Apartment Furniture Marine Floats Flux Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may say it has never yet returned-you cannot say that it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”

Knows May Has Beens Felt Bits Sound Gone Return Destroyed Metals Blasphemy Presumptuous

Book:Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]

“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.”

Ideas Real Hard Bigs Gone Environment Return Harder Investing Entering Get Real Differentiate New Environment

Author:Steven A. Cohen

“Every time I've gone to Brazil I've gotten sick upon return. You know, it's just a different situation there. And I take every precaution - eating cooked foods and staying away from tap water, brushing my teeth with bottled water - and yet I still manage to get sick. So I'm just going to stay on point, bring my probiotics.”

Knows Stills Different Water Situation Gone Return Eating Sick Teeth Manage Staying Brazil Precaution Brushing Bottled Water Tap Water Probiotics

Author:Kerri Walsh

“I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.”

Way Trying Years Children Art Said Gone Impossible One Thing Return Raised

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.”

Energy Gone Return Investment Yield Expenditures

Author:Brendan Brazier

“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”

Ifs Fighting House Lines Gone Fronts Ready Return Spring Troops Old Friends

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.”

People Knows Night Fear Numbers Talking Gone Air Source Return Phones Posts Reporters Telephones Phone Calls

Author:Bob Woodward

“According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”

“The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.”

“We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.”

World Needs Should Persons Purpose Waiting Gone Creation Divine Return Wake Up Just One Sparks

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”

World Writing Said Would Be Able Mother Father Novel Gone Written Return Letters Corners Convinced Limitation Pens Encyclopedia Corners Of The World Supernatural Powers

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare”

Sometimes Gone Return Always Happy

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”

Home Known Gone Return Life Changing

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me”

Ifs Love Gone Return Let Me Marcus Flutie

Book:The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”

Ifs Ideas Wanted Past Certain Gone Return Starting Confused Over It Daisies Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Love Gatsby Love Great Gatsby Nick Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”

Source: The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition

“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”

Ifs World Years Lasts Lying Grows Differences Gone Forever Flower Return Spring Paid Ancient Fallen Last Year Replaced Renewal Vines Petals Spring Flowers

Author:Daniel Abraham