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two half reason
Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole. Becca Fitzpatrick
two chocolate looks
You’ve got food stuck in your teeth,” Vee told Marcie. “In the crack between your two front teeth. Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax … Becca Fitzpatrick
two evil hey
Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them? Becca Fitzpatrick
two chocolate would-be
It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch. Becca Fitzpatrick
two black singers
Being a blues singer is like being black two times. B. B. King
two voice guitar
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another. B. B. King
two construction-workers matter
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. Bill Shorten
two giving choices
There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future. Bill Crawford
two firsts want
To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others. Bill Crawford
greek humanity library
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. Carl Sagan
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek tasks attention
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human. Alain de Botton
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
greek littles chickens
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
greek possibility impossibility
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
greek taught teacher
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
would-be faults seagull
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
would-be want homework
Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine. Becca Fitzpatrick
would-be understood
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Arsenio Hall
would-be opinion easier
Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is. Bertrand Russell
would-be action ifs
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. Charles Barkley
would-be should ifs
If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Charles Spurgeon
would-be taxation payment
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. Ayn Rand
would-be done lines
If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him. C. S. Lewis
would-be world ugly
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world. Alain de Botton