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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
Inga Muscio
Tags: Power Me Them
Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me.
Hugh Ross
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.


Walt Whitman
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We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.


James Larkin
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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
Louise Mensch
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tags: You Your Them
I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
Paul Weller
Tags: People Me Like
I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?
Tom Sizemore
Tags: Life Will Go
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The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.


Rebekah Brooks
Tags: Our Will Make
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
Madeleine Albright
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.


Richard Cecil
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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
Andy Goldsworthy
Tags: About Will Go
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
Evangeline Lilly
Tags: Men Me Because
For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
Daniel Radcliffe
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In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Evel Knievel
Tags: Time Me More
I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.
Raymond Burr
Tags: Very Go Day
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.
Jake Epstein
Tags: You Me Will
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.


W. C. Fields
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.
Hilary Mantel
Tags: Music You People