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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

“I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.”

Might Choices Return Financial Motivated

Author:Stephen Daldry

“The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.”

Littles Long Dream Might Return Evening Honey Bees Gloom Comrade Combs Hives Honey Bee Little Bee Bees And Honey

Book:Collected Sonnets, Old and New

Source: Collected Sonnets, Old and New

“There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.”

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.”

Humans May Ends Reason Might Would Be Used Animal Race Planets Return Advantage Human Race Bombs Topics Unlimited Cheerful Homo Sapiens Hydrogen Uranium Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Bertrand Russell

“If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God.”

Ifs Thinking Way States Might Happens Hate Path Return Mountain I Hate Seeking Stores Polygamy Prosecutor Utah

Author:Tom Green

“You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.”

Feels Mean Might Courses Party Careers Return Comfortable Trade Profit Expected Favors Odds Trading Being Positive

Author:Gary B Smith

“A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.”

Ifs Light Might Return Burden Noses Settling Weary Trifles

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.”

Trying Mind Real Might Desire Love Is Return Lovers Madness Genuine Elsewhere Goddess Prescriptions Venus Gazing Illusory Sexual Desire Fonts

Author:Paul Ludwig Landsberg

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.”

Persons Home Might Care Vision Novel Return Encounters Permit

Author:Thomas C Foster

“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.”

Wells States Might Moral New York Return Summer Population Manners Vacation Mars Prohibition Thirteen Comets New York State Summer Vacation Halley's Comet

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.”

Wells Two Home Might Parent Return Chicago Elsewhere Old Friends Hometown Going Home Two Homes

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.”

People Years Stills Ideas Reason Might Political Certain Politics Term Forget Alive Return Periods Office Mass Regard Independence Governors Fixing Public Good Term Limits

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.”

Important Enough Whole Might Fighting Interest Differences Situation Position Return Normal Regard Prepared West Russia Costumes Ukraine Dressed Up It Is What It Is National Interests

Author:Marvin Kalb

“The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.”

Self Might Pay Return Compliment Regulation Own Business Self Regulation

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treachero us mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father.”

Helping Might Spiritual Law Father Existence Lord Return Safety Mortals Obedience Heavenly Commandments Heavenly Father Navigate Guidelines

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”

Ifs Doe Character Facts Might Would Be Given Causes Judging Return Blow Latter Justify Jury Aggravation Verdict Pun Homicide Aggravated

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.”

Way Whole Facts Light Might Animal Subjects Example Return England Plant Following Thrown Bores Variation Collecting Geology

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.”

Might Creation Return Casts Spells Persona Phantoms Sorceress

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.”

Giving Years Helping Light Might Song Return Incredibles My Favorite Folks Magazines Tunes Shed Honored Appreciated Accompany Favorite Music

Author:Jon Foreman

“You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.”

Might Return Doctors Singers Oxygen Tents

Author:Patsy Cline

Long Matter Might Moving Spirit Wish One Thing Return Beloved Metamorphosis Lingering

Author:Gregory Orr

“Everybody talks about candidate tax returns, and they release those - well, most. But medical records, that's another thing, and that arguably might be more important or relevant than somebody's tax return.”

Wells Important Might Records Return Taxes Medical Release Candidates Relevant Tax Returns Medical Records

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

People Shows Might Animal Return Comeback Lavish Lifestyle

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.”

Ifs Want Government Might Happens Form Next Months Return Areas Mail Census

Author:Andy Rooney

“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”

World Reason Use Might Night Religious Results Technology Effects Return Hunger Plenty Technological Misuse Zealot Latest Technology

Book:The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

Source: The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

“She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?" What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?" Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.”

“- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.”

“Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.”

Ifs May Might Sky Return Bird Decided Wings Branches Destination Resent True Freedom

Author:Kazuya Minekura

“But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.”

Ifs Giving Might Special Return Kissing Give Me Hug Brotherly Special Gifts

Book:Dragonskin Slippers

Source: Dragonskin Slippers

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