You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.
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Related The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER 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 You are unique. No other person looks exactly like you SOTONYE ANGA There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses ... C.S. LEWIS One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such ... SHANNON HALE England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be ... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You can be all that you want to be. Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL You are my Lord and King; You are my sovereign and graceful God. What I have You graciously gave me,... NORM TOMLINSON Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA Out the corner of my eye I see Packard fly at Marty, pin him against the wall. "You do not do that! ... CAROLYN CRANE I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afrai... JOE ROGAN A lion will only retreat if you stare it in the eyes; likewise, so will fear. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. B... G. K. CHESTERTON All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. B... GILBERT K. CHESTERTON And believe in what I have revealed, verifying that which is with you, and be not the first to deny ... QURAN As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter wher... JOHN COREY WHALEY I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinatin... EMILY BERRINGTON 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Remember, you are where you're supposed to be at any given point and time of the day. The people aro... CELESTINE L. GRAY Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company. BRYANT MCGILL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad
company. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that fir... TAMORA PIERCE It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself... RAINER MARIA RILKE I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his... C. JOYBELL C. I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for ... CHARLES DANCE If you really believe that all men are created equal, you are comfortable in any company. MICHAEL LIPSEY The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would ... JOHN GREEN That isn't why. She would have chosen him even if you'd had royal blood in your veins, even if you'd... C.S. PACAT It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i... H. L. MENCKEN We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,... LOU HOLTZ Hitting the fairways here is the most important thing, ... If you miss a green, you have a chance of... RETIEF GOOSEN It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Never get to the point where you cannot see anything good about yourself SOTONYE ANGA I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is nearly impossible to make a psycho attached to you. Once you are successfully his attachment, ... AWSAAF ALI Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE Never get to the point where you cannot see anything good about yourself SOTONYE ANGA There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak th... SELENIS LEYVA I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the st... ANTON CORBIJN You would think that it would be hard to miss someone in the road if you were going back to look for... BROOKE BUETTI There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people ... STEVE NASH I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. ... STIRLING MOSS And I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask... BILL COSBY The Boy and the Nettles
A boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Altho... AESOP A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... TRACY MORGAN You incessantly insist that I stop looking at what you ignorantly believe to be the "bad" parts of t... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER If you say you are a company that offers great service, you have do it all of the time. VIVIAN DEUSCHL In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good inten... RACHEL PLATTEN If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awarenes... ANNE LAMOTT When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intel... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why d... JANETTE RALLISON You incessantly insist that I stop looking at what you ignorantly believe to be the "bad" parts of t... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge t... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you wo... GREG LAKE To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... If you are going to measure the love you have and the good deeds you do with a rod, now you are tryi... PHILIP T. M. If you start a conversation with the assumption
that you are right or that you must win,
obviously i... WENDELL BERRY All you need in life is to know thyself; to live with the knowledge that it’s just life and that's... JAMES A. MURPHY I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you ... JULIA ROBERTS There is so much you are capable of doing, but you will never know until you try SOTONYE ANGA When life has torn everything from you and kicked you even when you are down, all you can really do ... GARY F EVANS... We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I woul... JEANETTE WINTERSON And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playma... MARLIECE ANDRADA We all have a duty to define who we are SOTONYE ANGA We all have a duty to define who we are SOTONYE ANGA You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly ... JAMAICA KINCAID People send you stuff if you say you're interested in something. I have a tonne of body lotion. ... ANNA KENDRICK But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it? UMBERTO ECO The Man and the Lion
A man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boas... AESOP So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of... LARRY POTTS I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. Yo... CAROLYN CRANE If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.... TREVOR NOAH That is because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn,” said Firenze. “Only one who has not... J.K. ROWLING
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After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper w... NEIL GAIMAN Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be... NEIL GAIMAN Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said t... NEIL GAIMAN Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to ... NEIL GAIMAN Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement ... NEIL GAIMAN Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, pe... NEIL GAIMAN I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death pe... NEIL GAIMAN If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it... 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NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free... NEIL GAIMAN My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ... NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar... NEIL GAIMAN