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You can't start the next chapter of your life -- Michael McMillian
This opens the door on another chapter of history. -- Walter Cronkite
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -- Thomas Jefferson
We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over. -- Barry Schuler
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. -- Mickey Spillane
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. -- Carol Shields
Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre. -- Lillian Russell
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. -- Marianne Williamson
We are Living in the Last Chapters of LifeFind Your Purpose and make it the Best Story possible. -- Randa Manning-Johnson
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. -- John Donne
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. -- Beverley Nichols
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter! -- LaToya Jackson
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. -- Umberto Eco
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. -- Melody Beattie
Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen. -- Will Self
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. -- Marian Keyes
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written! -- Samuel Lover
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. -- Marianne Williamson
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. -- John Quincy Adams
It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. -- Paulo Coelho
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook. -- H. P. Lovecraft
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus -- Harper Lee
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. -- Caroline Myss
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Albums are chapters. They're part of a story. -- Hunter Hayes
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. -- Nora Ephron
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. -- Al Sharpton
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. -- Beverley Nichols
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. -- Ellen G. White
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. -- Hugh Laurie
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. -- Herman Melville
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.' -- Maya Angelou
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. -- Steven Spielberg
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. -- Harlan Coben
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. -- Tom Hayden
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace. -- A. R. Rahman
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. -- John Irving
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history. -- Russell Smith
I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you're 15 years old, and it enables girls who don't have the money to come in and choose something special. -- Ashley Greene
I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing. -- Jude Law
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. -- Max Muller
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. -- Ann Romney
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God. -- Adam Hamilton
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture. -- Henry B. Eyring
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history. -- Joe Torre
I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. -- Tom Clancy
Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. -- Jodi Picoult
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. -- Charles Stanley
It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters. -- Robert Altman
Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones. -- Terry Pratchett
For friends' reviews, sample chapters and more pictures go to my website -- Leni Goodman
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. -- Aprilynne Pike
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Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated storiesCourageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. -- Nelson DeMille
Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters. -- Susan Wojcicki
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself. -- Abby Wambach
The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few. -- David Cameron
...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers. -- William Goldman
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases... -- Jimmy Buffett
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. -- Ernst Haas
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later. -- Bob Goff
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters. -- Patricia C. Wrede
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. -- Terence Winter
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. -- Herman Melville
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. -- Jim Fergus
Life has many chapters. Just because you're at a bad chapter, it doesn't mean it's the end of the book. -- Hakan Massoud Nawabi
No matter how good or bad your state of living currently is, better chapters are destined to unfold in your life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. -- Mark Twain
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. -- Stef Penney
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. -- Saint Augustine
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. -- David Crabb
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men. -- Henry Ward Beecher
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue. -- Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. -- Assegid Habtewold
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. -- Mary Roach
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters. -- George Takei
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. -- Charles Spurgeon
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life. -- Jodie Foster
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. -- John Dos Passos
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. -- Max Lucado
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable. -- Frank Moore Cross
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
DonÂ´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. -- Rajneesh
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful. -- Michael Eisner
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. -- Sophia Bush
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind. -- George W. Bush
Perhaps itâ??s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are whatâ??s important in life. -- Aron Ralston
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. -- Arthur Herzog
I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy. -- Darrelle Revis
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing. -- Anthony Burgess
I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth. -- John Barth
As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive. -- Alexander Chee
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil! -- Vance Havner
Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode. -- Sharyn Alfonsi
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When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity. -- David Sheff
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. -- Fred Saberhagen
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. -- Anne Fadiman
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith. -- John Calvin
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them. -- Scott Westerfeld
...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. -- Alasdair Gray
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next? -- E. M. Forster
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin -- Anne Tyler
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. -- Tom Hayden
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. -- Anne Tyler
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher. -- Julianna Baggott
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters. -- Dan Brown
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. -- Fritz Sauckel
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. -- Annie Dillard
If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing. -- Larry Crabb
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters. -- Allison Pearson
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters." -- Allison Pearson

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