Wade Quotes - Page 3

• It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Mean, Thinking, Back Alleys

  GownUps interview, www.grownups.co.nz.

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• She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

  Mariah Carey

  Dream, Sadness, Insecurity

  Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

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• As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

  Mark Galli

  Religious, Reality, Belief

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• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

  Charles Tilly

  Thinking, Hands, Political

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• When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Shopping, Thank God, Saws

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• You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself.

  Randy Orton

  Order, Wwe, Champion

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• I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

  Norma McCorvey

  Jane, Has Beens

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• For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, War, Eye

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

  Rick Santorum

  Years, Two, Pro Life

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• Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mistake, Son

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• Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Thinking, Two, Way

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• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  King James I

  Kings, Weakness, Thrones

  Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.

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• Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams, looking for good spots, usually falling and breaking some piece of equipment. Or I stand still and work myself into a frenzy about what fly I should use. I love fishing, but it has never given me a moments peace.

  James P. Gorman

  Fall, Sea, Fishing

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.

  Yuri Orlov

  Dream, Struggle, Mean

  Yuri Orlov (1991). “Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life”, William Morrow

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• Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.

  Janice Tanton

  Age, Boots, Rubber

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• I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.

  Willie Geist

  Phones, Organization, People

  Source: on.today.com

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• Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

  Sara Gruen

  Horse, Smell, Car

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• No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sorry

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.67, Penguin

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• Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Lying, Rain

  Tove Jansson (2008). “Moomin Book Three: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip”, Drawn and Quarterly

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• For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

  Christopher Paolini

  Ocean, Blood, Ifs

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1895, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Heart, Water, Praying

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.400, A&C Black

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• Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Sea, Land

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.92

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• In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Fall, People, Forever

  Source: quarterlyconversation.com

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