Reusing Materials Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be. — Roberto Bolano

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton

For the record, Ruth, I would have welcomed any path my life took, so long as it was with you. — Melissa Hill

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits. — Barry Manilow

You can overcome the things that are done to you, but you cannot escape the things that you have done.
Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. The soldiers who don't die for us come home again. They bring with them the killers they became on our national behalf, and sit with their polluted memories and broken emotions in our homes and schools and temples. We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.You can tell yourself all the stories you want, but you can't leave your actions over there. You can't build a wall and expect to live on the other side of memory. All of the poison seeps back into our soil. — Megan K. Stack

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best. — Maria Sharapova

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. — Roger Ebert

Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. — Pal Schmitt

You set us up!"
"No! I swear - " Her face fell. "Mel. Mel must've told him."
"Right," I grumbled. "Blame Mel. — Rick Riordan

The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page. — Sai Marie Johnson

I slip my canteen strap over my head, open the lid, and take a drink. Then I hand it to Hampton. A peace offering. "It's not communionif there's no wine."
Hampton tips it to his lips and swallows long and hard. He wipes his mouth when he's done. "Well, darn. The Savior got confused and turned this wine into water."
"The Lord works in mysterious ways," Henry says, taking the canteen fromHampton — Rae Carson

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. — Anthony Horowitz

Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'. — Craig D. Lounsbrough