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• Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

  Megan McCafferty

  Prayer, Long, Waiting

  Megan McCafferty (2011). “Bumped”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

  George Orwell

  Foals, Motherly, Figures

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Art, Winter

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

  John Green

  Boys, Secret, Rooms

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

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• Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Believe, Lost Ones

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• I don't suppose that she gave you the job based on looks alone?" Adrian had been staring off but now flashed me a big smile. "Why, Sage, you sweet talker." "That's not what I meant! What happened?" He shrugged. "I told the truth." "Adrian!" "I'm serious. She asked me what my greatest strength was. I said getting along with people." "That's not bad." I admitted. "Then she asked what my greatest weakness was. And I said, 'Where should I start?'" "Adrian!" "Stop saying my name like that. I told her the truth. By the time I was on the fourth one, she told me I could go.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Jobs, Names

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• Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Finals, Pieces

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• .. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Feet, Way

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• Since killing people is illegal, can I have a Taser just for shits and giggles? -Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet

  Darynda Jones

  Feet, People, Tasers

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• The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Inspirational, Life, Secret

  "The Mists of Avalon".

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• He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

  Robert Jordan

  Son, Dragons, Wind

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Teacher, Mean, Adversity

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• We have
  Not one
  In common
  No two
  Are shaped alike
  The third
  Because of that eye we lack
  In the fourth
  Direction there is no hope
  The fifth
  is at the heart.

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Eye, Two

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, en.wikiquote.org. August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer to her face, she examined the design. It was the simplest of all the rings, a polished gold band engraved with the words Tha Gad Agam Ort. “What does this mean?” she asked MacPhee. “It says, ‘My love is upon ye.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Love Is, Hands

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• First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?

  Gena Showalter

  Fighting, Lessons, Firsts

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Craving”, p.115, HQN Books

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Peace, Passion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 30, 1799.

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• The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.

  Wu Ta-ch'i

  Leadership, Determination, Pay

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• Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!

  Julianne Malveaux

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

  Nikita Khrushchev

  People, Politics, Today

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

  Stephen Covey

  Independent, Self Confidence, Decisions We Make

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Grades, Fourth Grade

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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