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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus

Time, Happen, Few

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.
Rick Perry

Jobs, Texas, Created

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Alexander McQueen

Woman, Book, Night

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
Satyajit Ray

Mind, Wait, Keep

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
Susan Orlean

Perfect, Quality, Four

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
Suzanne Fields

Faith, Death, Different

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

Power, Made, Healing

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane Fonda

Life, Between, Child

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

Lies, Hear, Wants

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
Mary J. Blige

God, Year, Sure

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Eyes, Keep

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
Henry Louis Gates

God, Mom, Black

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery

Science, Successful, Means

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Joan Jett

Life, Long, Attention

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
Joan Jett

Trying, Off, Write

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
Joan Jett

Life, Job, Person

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.
Carrie Underwood

Life, Throw, Balls

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.
Sienna Miller

Ignore, Living, Dream

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
Richard Pryor

Best, Die, Around

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

Life, Future, Live

I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.
Giada De Laurentiis

Help, Stress, Keep

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Daniel Webster

Education, Free, Among

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael

Arts, Source, Critic

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang

Life, Success, Learn

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
Ed Koch

Love, Hate, Country

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry

Peace, Time, Free

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz

War, Reality, Country

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
John Podhoretz

History, Him, American

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Around, Takes

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

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