When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
– Leif Enger
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- When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity. – Adedayo Olabamiji
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- Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically. – Lorrie Moore
- Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go – Justine Dell
- If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white – Mervyn Peake
- Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. – William Goldman
- Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room. – Ray Bradbury
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- The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
- When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. – Al Franken
- In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. – Jonathan Clements
- The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment. – Aron Ra
- In the end, perfection is just a concept – an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature. – Guillermo del Toro
- This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. …If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. – Arthur Tofte
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. – Mark Twain
- When the last woman dies, the last man dies! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Successful prayer life only dies after its habit dies. – Samuel T Padmore
- When someone you love dies, part of you dies with them. It’s why your never the same after losing someone. – Shannon Messenger
- He who dies with the most toys…dies a child. – James Rozoff
- When a language dies, a possible world dies with it. – George Steiner
- Death is beautiful, part of life… No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad. – Harris Wittels
- When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. – Jackie Kay
- We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. – Edward R Murrow
- Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Everyone dies. That is a universal constant. The only variable is how one dies. – Chris de Pavilly
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- Miracle is going to WORK with you ,only if you are going to do same with Miracle..!! – Ridhdhesh Jivawala
- Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug. – Gayle Forman
- There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible-”just merely unlikely. – Nick Nwaogu
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- In the Presence of Love…there are Miracles…Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease. – Deborah Brooks