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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Love, Beautiful

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Around, Few, Dangerous

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson

School, Last, Year

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain

Love, Yourself, Give

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Edie Brickell

Everything, Place, Reason

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
Drew Barrymore

Hate, Small, Hell

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. Bush

Freedom, Democracy, Put

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

Past, Find, Sometimes

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth

Good, Tell, Ask

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Looking, Reflection, Face

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut

Blessing, Dead, Mixed

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld

Through, Thought, Enough

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Silence, Speech, Pay

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
Bryant H. McGill

Friend, Keep, Expect

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
Emmanuelle Beart

Work, Yourself, Put

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt

Great, Living, Pride

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
Miranda Lambert

Love, Good, Sad

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Said, Once

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington

Home, Mother, School

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.
Ellen DeGeneres

Gay, Trying, Thought

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
Ellen DeGeneres

Time, Crazy, Forget

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook

Character, Nothing, Him

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

God, Stars, Sky

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano

Work, Fight, Hard

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Doug Coupland

Someone, Book, Giving

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll

Thinking, Again, Question

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
Herb Brooks

Smart, Important, Hard

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

Home, Give, Days

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
Steven Spielberg

History, Today, Greatest

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Mason Cooley

Soul, Face, Mirror

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