He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
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Related The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are ... PICO IYER It's very scary to come to a place where you don't have anybody to help you. MARIA MARTINEZ It puts you in a precarious spot where you have to worry about further losses pushing you into situa... CHUCK HILL do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429 CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be ... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belo... LYSA TERKEURST You will not find love where you wish or where you hope. RICK RIORDAN Personal empowerment will take you from where you are in your life, to where you could be. It’s no... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI If you perceive a world where there are separate images and you still feel a charge about anything, ... DAVID HOFFMEISTER If you live in low-lying areas, flood-prone areas -- you know where they are -- you need to get out, MIKE EASLEY REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH Where you find Truth Is where you find your reflection And... SUZY KASSEM You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next. ERIC GREEN Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT You determined where you are now. And, you will determine where you will be tomorrow. You get to cho... LORRIN L. LEE I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a ... BELL HOOKS Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you... PHILIP PULLMAN You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you ... BRYAN CLAY A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet ... CRISS JAMI The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you... RICHARD BACH That's one thing about Helton, you're always aware of where he is. You talk about (San Francisco Gia... BOB MELVIN It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself... AUGUST WILSON Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to y... CARYLL HOUSELANDER Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolution... GARY HOPKINS Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolution... GARY HOPKINS Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where ... RICHARD EBERHART You may not be where you want to be, but you better be glad that you aren't where you were. STEVE HARVEY It should be a place where you have everything you need, a place where, if you don't want to leave t... LAUREN TERRY I’ve never been so clear about anything in my life. I turned around, made my way to that room you ... JAMIE MCGUIRE The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Whe... RICHARD BACH It's just one more thing to worry about, I guess. You just try to be smart about where you're going. JOE AMATO You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s ... J.M. BARRIE My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins... ANNE LAMOTT TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE, THE BEST PLACE TO START FROM IS WHERE YOU ARE, WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the... RICHARD FEYNMAN You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from. ANA DE ARMAS Life is not about where you come from but it is about where you are going. JESSICA A. SANCHEZ You can [
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be? SOURCE UNKNOWN Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compare... ELAINE MACDONALD I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you... RICHARD LINKLATER I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that ... WENDIE MALICK I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that ... WENDIE MALICK You've just got to be honest with yourself and decide where you're at and where you want to be, MARSHALL FAULK If you are out with say five of your friends and four of you smoke, and you are driving around town ... DAN WALKER If you are out with say five of your friends and four of you smoke, and you are driving around town ... 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RICHARD BACH Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. ... DAMON GALGUT Look where YOU have been; view where YOU are at; seek where YOU want to be. GWENDOLYN MOORE AKA MOZETTE It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel ... CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreati... ETHAN COEN I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you wan... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY Make time for yourself. How are you spending your time? Are you doing the things you love?Are you ma... AKIROQ BROST Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it... T.S. ELIOT Up to now we've played some teams where maybe you have to worry about one or two kids. You have to w... MARK STORM One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation w... NOLAN RYAN If you live in a small town, or a place where everyone is more or less the same, it's easy to dislik... TOM FORD Sometimes I feel like I’m a stranger here. In my own hometown. It’s always been that way. Then I... C.D. REISS You become attached to where you are. People know where to find us. LANA STANLEY If you are an adventurer, you will not be interested in where the road goes or where the road ends; ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the f... ERIC SCHMIDT Now all you parents who are saying, 'Come on.' I'm now going to throw it back at you. Where are the ... BILL COSBY A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you... CHARLES DICKENS I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be ... WES CRAVEN Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going th... BO BENNETT In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to ... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultura... CATIE CURTIS ...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However... DAN MILLMAN
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