Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
– Neal Stephenson
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- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
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- I just saved your ????ing life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. – Neal Stephenson
- It’s–my God–like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it. – Neal Stephenson
- See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, – Neal Stephenson
- think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn’t. – Neal Stephenson
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- She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek’s bank, her posture still demanding ‘no trespassing’ but no longer ‘trespassers will be shot. – Kristen Heitzmann
- Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten. – Jennifer FrickRuppert
- If I shot an arrow and thought about an ???, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?’ Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice. – PC Cast
- The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not – Charles Barkley
- Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down. – Julieanne OConner
- However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it. – Nicola Yoon
- Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. – John H Arnold
- Jason’s heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men. – Rick Riordan
- Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals. – Rae Carson
- Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace. – Mark Noce
- The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. – George Stephenson
- I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. – Neal Shusterman
- He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
- The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight. – Bikash Chaurasiya
- The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève – N’a la galette entière.) – Charles de Leusse
- Literature is humanity’s broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It’s humanity without the judgement. – Glen Duncan
- Ask broad questions and you’ll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you’ll get no answer. – SD Lawendowski
- Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever. – Ray Anyasi
- And at the closing of the dayShe loosed the chain, and down she lay;The broad stream bore her far away,The Lady of Shallot. – Alfred Tennyson
- Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow. – Billy Graham
- In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world. – Billy Graham
- What drew her into O’Riley’s like a bee to honey was the six-foot, broad-shouldered, dark eyes, dark smile of Finn O’Riley himself. – Jill Shalvis
- Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. – Guy de Maupassant
- Ships passing in broad daylight. – Haruki Murakami
- Tall and built like a dense forest, Clint’s broad shoulders made a girl want to learn how to scale trees. Except me. I wanted to start a forest fire. – JC McKenzie
- Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others… – TaNehisi Coates
- What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. – AW Tozer
- Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way – Mary Doria Russell
- When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience. – Jaeda DeWalt