Mediawiki Disable Magic Quotes & Sayings

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities. — Yann Martel

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don't want people to destroy everything! — Magda M. Olchawska

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. — Junot Diaz

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. — Tama J. Kieves

These preliminary studies then prompted hundreds of millions of dollars of studies that failed to confirm the initial hypothesis that fat or animal fat led to cancer. — Gary Taubes

there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered. — Hannah Arendt

Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were preceded by a period of isolation in the mountains. — Dick Swaab

Uh ... Scar?" Tristan tried to sound calm. "You know you still have a knife in your hand?" Scarlet looked down at the weapon. "Yes. I want to take it with me." "Why?" Heather swallowed. "Um." Scarlet looked confused. "I don't know. But I know I want it with me. — Chelsea Fine

Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect. — Zelda La Grange

White is not always light and black is not always dark. — Habeeb Akande

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within. — Linda Gray

Get excited about life! — John Di Lemme

The camera does a close-up on the girl who can miraculously see again. It cuts to the mother-in-law, then to the clueless husband. All at once, the credits run.
"Maldito sea!" Lila shoves the coffee table with her foot. "We have to wait to see that hussy get what's coming?"
"Please. You know what's coming." I rub perfume on my wrists and sniff. It's better than sour milk, and it reminds me of fancy department stores where I can only browse. I stuff a few samples in my pocket. "It's going to end the way all the novelas end. Everybody happy."
She shoos away my idea like it's a bad smell. "So what? Nobody gets happy the same way. That's what's interesting. — Meg Medina

I'd like to play nothing but good characters. — Joan Leslie