Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it, ~Marek Siwiec
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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