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| 71a55de | I've brought sandwiches." He indicated a brown paper bag. "Let's play a game." Startled, we looked each other in the eye. We both swallowed hard. I cleared my throat and asked, "What's the game?" "If I've managed to bring your favorite sandwich, you meet me again tomorrow." "I like cheese," I said cautiously. I was afraid of him producing turkey and cranberry, my most hated. "What kind of cheese?" he asked. "Any kind." "Go on. Be specific.".. | Marian Keyes | ||
| aed0f39 | I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1d36225 | She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 25a7802 | I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8281d18 | And Marrakech, a place that Himself had particularly loved, transpired to be not so wonderful for me because - in one of those unfortunate oversights - I didn't have a penis. They're not so keen on women in Marrakech. To put it mildly. But that's a different story. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 13efb81 | She had once tried to copy Jojo's sexy wink - drink had been taken - but she had simply succeeded in dislodging her contact lens which had made her eyelid flutter like a trapped butterfly. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 7149b67 | Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft." | Marian Keyes | ||
| fd840e6 | Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period, | Marian Keyes | ||
| b32eeab | Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning. | Marian Keyes | ||
| a2005e3 | I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting. | humour ireland london make-up shopping trapped | Marian Keyes | |
| e14fb45 | What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? We are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs and if human beings were cars, we would return them for being faulty. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 82c8e95 | they thought that there was no such thing as Depression, other than a vague, neurotic concept. That it was just an updated version of 'suffering from her nerves' which everyone knows translates as 'she feels sorry for herself for no good reason. | Marian Keyes | ||
| bd88072 | mind her when I'm away?' I stayed overnight in | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0a01fd4 | time I'll | Marian Keyes | ||
| b925d0c | However, my sense of hospitality decreases in direct proportion to the number of glasses of wine that I've had, so by dessert and coffee time I am usually far too relaxed (all right then, far too drunk, if you will insist on calling a spade a spade) and no longer feel any need to clear the table. | wine | Marian Keyes | |
| 0777d3e | The thing about personal growth, I've discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 18ebf56 | Creating a healthy relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country. The borders are always under threat and every day you have to shore them up. So when something in the country implodes, the shockwaves move outwards and the borders push back until eventually the crisis subsides ... | Marian Keyes | ||
| 38d43b0 | As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes ached. To look directly at them one would need a piece of cardboard with a hole in it, of the type used for viewing a solar eclipse. | Marian Keyes | ||
| c40ca09 | He'd refused to sack Honey Monster Shauna after she'd mistakenly included an extra zero in Gaelic Knitting and people ended up knitting christening shawls that were seventeen feet long instead of three. | Marian Keyes | ||
| fdf78b1 | Fifty-six Democratic senators proposed repealing the free-speech protections of the First Amendment. The media were silent, and yet the American people deserve to know that a majority of their senators were so afraid of political opposition that they wanted to empower the federal government to police who can speak, and when, and for how long--and on what subjects. That was a radical break from the vision of our Founders. | Ted Cruz | ||
| f06f102 | I'd helped kick caffeine withdrawal the week before. I'd given him an l-tyrosine cocktail and, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0c7c6f4 | Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire cofounder of PayPal, who has supported Tea Party-aligned super PACSs and candidates such as Tea Party standard-bearer senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who opposes gay marriage and voted against a bill that would have banned discrimination against gay and transgender people in employment; | Michelangelo Signorile | ||
| 234c549 | When the USS Maine was sunk in the port of Havana in 1898, | Ted Cruz | ||
| cb6dd44 | Instead of the patriotic pageantry Republicans typically produce, the four-day event was a strange, dark, almost dystopian affair whose attempt to unify the party was marred by Ted Cruz's public refusal to endorse Trump, prompting the crowd to boo him off the stage during prime time. | Joshua Green | ||
| 71dad0e | The consequences of Obama's illegal amnesty became plain in 2013 and 2014, when we saw the numbers of unaccompanied minors crossing the border skyrocket. In 2011, roughly 6,000 unaccompanied children crossed the border. By 2014, that number had risen to 90,000. And by 2015 it is estimated to rise to 145,000. | Ted Cruz | ||
| d61fc53 | We remember when President Obama was defending the ObamaCare bill. He promised the American people that as a result of ObamaCare, the averagefamily's health insurance premium would drop $2,500. He said: That is going to happen by the end of my first term. I would point out that the President's first term ended 9 months ago, and by the end of the President's first term, that promise was proven not just a little off the mark, not just kind of.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| f286431 | Another small business owner around that table owned several fast food restaurants. She had a problem. She owned enough fast food restaurants that she had over 50 employees. I will mention the restaurant business and the fast food business side in particular is quite labor dependent. I doubt if there is a sector in this economy that has been hurt more than the labor in the fast food business. But her problem was she had enough stores so she.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 8795759 | What a travesty. Where is the outrage? Where is the outrage? Where are the Senators standing here saying: What a travesty that young people are being denied a fair shot at the American dream because of what we have wrought because of ObamaCare. | Ted Cruz | ||
| abdbfb7 | Mr. VITTER. Will the Senator yield for a question? Mr. CRUZ. I am happy to yield for a question without yielding the floor. Mr. VITTER. I thank the Senator. Does he acknowledge that he understands, as I do, that as this monstrosity goes into effect October 1 and as it has all of these really devastating impacts on individuals and small businesses, under a special illegal rule from the Obama administration, Congress and Washington get an.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a0a4950 | I don't think the American people are conflicted. If you look at the nations that have socialized medicine, everyplace it has been implemented you see low quality, you see scarcity, you see waiting periods, and you see government bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor. If you go in for government treatment, you may be told that you are going to have to wait 6 months, you are going to have to wait a year or, you know what. A bureauc.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a701169 | Jobs are being lost because of ObamaCare. A U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey of small businesses in 2013 found that 71 percent of small businesses say ObamaCare makes it harder to hire workers. The study also found that two-thirds of small businesses are not ready to comply with ObamaCare rules. Why | Ted Cruz | ||
| 1c2196c | We need real health care reform. But it should expand competition and empower patients, and disempower government bureaucrats from getting between us and our doctors. We should allow people to purchase insurance across state lines (which is currently illegal), which will in turn create a fifty-state national marketplace for low-cost catastrophic coverage. If you want more coverage, you want more choices and lower costs. Obamacare gives us f.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a1bf7de | Why do we care about small businesses? Look, on one level, we care about the entrepreneurs--the Horatio Algers and the people working toward the American dream--but even more fundamentally, small businesses produce two-thirds of the new jobs in this country. If small businesses are suffering, jobs are suffering and America suffers. ObamaCare is an absolute disaster for small businesses. Forty-one percent of small business owners have held.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| d869077 | The President can grant exemptions to the big corporations and to Members of Congress, but hardworking American families, you guys are left in the cold. I would suggest that is a fundamental abdication of our responsibility. We are here--or we should be here--fighting for the people. Mr. | Ted Cruz | ||
| e939256 | The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses, but making public denunciation of certain classes of people into a form of popular entertainment. The masters of the funny cheap shot are comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who routinely and cleverly skewer conservatives as stupid bigots. After the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, for.. | Kim R. Holmes | ||
| ce2d20a | Our friends on the Democratic side of the aisle routinely say ObamaCare is terrific, it is great. If that is the case, then Members of Congress should be excited about being on those exchanges, which are apparently so great for our constituents, and so should Federal workers. But they are not, indeed, as the Senator from Alabama knows well. This | Ted Cruz | ||
| a241e9e | What confused me was that by this point, Trump was winning the race for the nomination. He had vanquished everyone but Ted Cruz, who was at least as disliked by Republicans as Trump was and way behind in the delegate count. The prospect of Trump as the nominee was getting more and more likely, and yet he maintained his focus on me. If winning couldn't distract him from coming after me, would anything? This will keep going until he chooses t.. | Megyn Kelly | ||
| af569ab | I would note, first of all, the Senate Democrat who is the lead author of ObamaCare has referred to ObamaCare's implementation as ``a major train wreck.'' That is not I speaking. That is not Senator Sessions speaking. That is the lead author of ObamaCare, a Democratic Senator. I commend his candor. It is indeed a major train wreck. I have no doubt that more than a few of his colleagues on that side of the aisle were unhappy with him for s.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 92f3f36 | Free enterprise has eradicated more poverty than all the government programs in the world combined. That is the story of free enterprise. That is why it is startling that over the last few decades, Federal policies have contributed steadily to undermining the free enterprise system. We | Ted Cruz | ||
| 728a09a | If your dream is to open your own business one day and to grow it, ObamaCare will hurt you. It is going to make it harder for you to be able to do that. If your dream is to do what my parents did, which is to work a job so your kids could one day have a career, ObamaCare is hurting you too. It could cost you the insurance you have now that you are happy with. It could cost you hours out of your paycheck. It could cost you your very job. W.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 204d041 | In November 2014, Republicans won a historic victory at the polls. We won more seats in the House than any year since the 1920s. We won nine new Senate seats, and retired Harry Reid as majority leader. And the number-one issue that Republican candidates campaigned upon--the top subject of campaign ads across the country--was Obamacare. Did it occur to anyone in Washington that our winning a tsunami of an election focused on Obamacare maybe,.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a8e6343 | When I went to the well of the Senate to record my vote before the clerk, it drew gasps. At least that's how it felt. It was viewed as somehow impertinent for a freshman senator to dare vote no for such a nomination, especially against an icon of the institution and especially after nearly every other Republican in the Senate, moderate or conservative, had indicated the proper vote I was supposed to make. This was an early sign of many sena.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 32c8c07 | As it happened, 2009 coincided with the first tea party rallies in Texas. The tea party was a true phenomenon of people fed up with politicians from both parties who'd raised our taxes, spent us into debt, and refused to listen to the voters who'd elected them. My father and I both spoke at some of the first rallies. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 7dc6a7e | None of the reporters covering the story could be bothered with addressing the substance. Repeatedly, I urged reporters, "for every ten stories you write repeating the personal attacks against me, could you maybe write one on substance? Namely that the nominee (1) absolutely refuses to disclose any of his income for three years, (2) has a long and extreme record of antagonism towards Israel and openness towards Iran's acquiring nuclear weap.. | Ted Cruz |