I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
#quotes #katherine-jenkins #mistakes #music

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
#quotes #stella-mccartney #fashion #technology

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
#quotes #alexander-payne #jesuits #christianity #religious

People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
#quotes #al-gore #funny #tired #night

In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
#quotes #sebastian-faulks #70s #eating

A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
#quotes #james-thurber #truth #human

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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