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So, there is more to you than meets the eye?” “You don’t even know.” was my reply. “In a good way or bad way?” was her next question. “Both” I answered, in either direction. “Ok” is how she ended the text. “Don’t we all have and good and bad sides?” is what I asked next. “We all have more to us than what meets the eyes. Some bad things don’t appear until that opportunity does arise and good qualities go unnoticed or may not be perceived as good but all of us have good and bad sides or at least most sane people should.” – Jay Abiona	added by jayabiona 10 years ago
People always ask how Tina (Rinaldi) and I ended up with the nicknames Pebbles and Bam-Bam, and, I tell them that during our college years the nicknames were perfect and we have Danny (D'Angelo) to thank for them. – John McNerney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My two rock idols are Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Not just because they are from Jersey, but, because they conduct themselves with humility and give a lot back to the public and their respective communities. And, the fact they both ended up marrying someone that "knew them when" is something I admire and hope to have with Tina (Rinaldi) one day. – John McNerney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this. – Madonna	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion	added by anonymous 10 years ago
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. – Bharavi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. – Hans Konig	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they 're ended. – Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sweet is a grief well ended. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – George Walker Bush	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. – M. C. Escher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. – Colin Greenwood	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. – George Stanley McGovern	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. – John Ernst Steinbeck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. – Anne Wilson Schaef	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they're ended. – Colley Cibber	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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