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  • It was her favorite quote by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a perfect mantra for Rosewood.†   (source)
  • The mantra of the group is "I promise to live with integrity, to have compassion for all living things, to be aware of my surroundings, and to just ask myself to care!"†   (source)
  • I repeated it like a mantra as she led me across the bog.†   (source)
  • "Keep it together, keep it together, keep it together," I chanted over and over, mantra-like.†   (source)
  • But as I start off toward Deering all I can think is, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, like a mantra, or a prayer.†   (source)
  • They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle: I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything.†   (source)
  • "Fire to fit," became Hugh Freeze's mantra: fire off the line of scrimmage and get fit on the defender before he knows what's hit him.†   (source)
  • The mantra was simple-you take care of your body like the rest of your gear.†   (source)
  • He was sitting on the ground, his knees drawn up to his chest, and he was chanting the statement like a mantra, but loudly.†   (source)
  • If she begs and pleads, they might just include her in their mantras next week.†   (source)
  • Look at the wealth of data concealed in the grid, in the bright packaging, the jingles, the slice-of-life commercials, the products hurtling out of darkness, the coded messages and endless repetitions, like chants, like mantras.†   (source)
  • A secret mantra that she could use to choose a lover from among the gods.†   (source)
  • But I kept my mantra in mind: The brick walls are there for a reason.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel is back to his mantra.†   (source)
  • I've said this phrase so many times, it has become a reassuring mantra instead of actual words: Mytwingo.†   (source)
  • She relived the clenching fist of labor pains, and the mantra she'd used to get through them: When this is done, imagine what you'll have.†   (source)
  • As long as I repeat the mantra in my head, I know I'm still alive.†   (source)
  • Grandfather is one of the few Masks who doesn't believe in Augur rubbish, and I repeat his mantra in my head.†   (source)
  • The words He's dead echoed like a mantra she couldn't escape.†   (source)
  • This last part, I was already beginning to recognize, was a mantra of sorts for her, as if by stringing all these words together, one of them might stick.†   (source)
  • Our shared mantra became "It can always get worse."†   (source)
  • His mantra fell, rhythmic accompaniment for his drumming.†   (source)
  • I repeat it like a mantra as I grab a rock and smash the first rune.†   (source)
  • "You cannot eat enough" is a BUD/S instructor's mantra; it's impossible to replace the calories burned on a daily basis.†   (source)
  • Three stands at the heart of the mantra.†   (source)
  • The rock group Smashing Pumpkins was contributing mantralike riffs from a portable CD player.†   (source)
  • The wall is a paltry play by administrators to boost the top students' self-esteem-a tired mantra here and at urban schools everywhere.†   (source)
  • Oh yes, she could and did recite the names of the cranial nerves as a mantra to calm her own nerves.†   (source)
  • It sounds like a twelve-step mantra and I'm not in Anything Anonymous, though to read some of the crap they write about me, you'd think I should be.†   (source)
  • He sat on the ground with his back to the big tree and prayed to God, the same mantra, over and over.†   (source)
  • He had been repeating these words like a mantra for several months.†   (source)
  • His heart was pounding and he could feel a sweat breaking out as he worked the trailer brakes and the shift, finding a rhythm in the mantra going through his head: Hit the binders, grab a gear, bit the binders, grab a gear.†   (source)
  • Although Rose's sincerity was evident and could not be doubted, her little mantra—Open your mind, open your heart—began to seem silly, as though she were not a scientist but a New Age guru.†   (source)
  • It was like a mantra, the way he had once held her at Renwick's and chanted her name over and over.†   (source)
  • The common mantra was "Train like you fight," which means don't go into battle with equipment you haven't used before, preferably extensively.†   (source)
  • We were truly trying to live out Coach Howard's mantra: CHARACTER STRENGTH HONOR†   (source)
  • "Life goes on" became Irene's mantra.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed and silent in her bed, my daughter Paula taught me a lesson that is now my mantra: You only have what you give.†   (source)
  • Max closed his eyes and repeated the mantra in his head.†   (source)
  • No more wait-and-see, the mantra of her parents as long as she could remember.†   (source)
  • Like a cinematic mantra, a mystical trailer of memory, I replayed the scene of all those boys standing in the grass about the spontaneous crèche of his death.†   (source)
  • Our mantra, or battle cry, was "Who's winning?†   (source)
  • My mantra helps me leave the cares of the world and open myself to meditation.
  • She said it over and over, like it wasn't a verb so much as a Buddhist mantra.†   (source)
  • Double vision, double over, he reminded himself, quoting the archivist's mantra.†   (source)
  • How she stood alone in an empty field, turned her face to the heavens and recited the mantra.†   (source)
  • It should be a mantra in the business world, in academia, and at home.†   (source)
  • "Come over and say a mantra," Darrel goes on.†   (source)
  • Now let's all choose a word, a different word, so we can each have our own special mantra.†   (source)
  • I already knew what she was going to say, the mantra of all attractive women.†   (source)
  • Go was the third person who'd mentioned this to me; it must be the mantra for cases going cold.†   (source)
  • Today we're going to pretend we live in India, and we're going to do a mantra.†   (source)
  • "It is for the best," she says as if it's a mantra.†   (source)
  • I repeated it under my breath like a mantra.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it was the one in my head, my mantra.†   (source)
  • "No, no, no," Scott repeated like a mantra.†   (source)
  • "No food in the car," I repeated, like a mantra.†   (source)
  • A dot was a visual mantra, an object that had no properties except location.†   (source)
  • This was my mantra, the thing I kept saying in my mind.†   (source)
  • The guy just kept saying it, like a mantra.†   (source)
  • I repeat it in my head like a mantra, except it does the opposite of what a mantra's supposed to do.†   (source)
  • Wrapped around each of his biceps were the Sanskrit words of the Shanti Mantras.†   (source)
  • Her work in this lab had proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that "mind over matter" was not just some New Age self-help mantra.†   (source)
  • A word of five letters, Langdon thought, pondering the staggering number of ancient words that might be considered words of wisdom—selections from mystic chants, astrological prophecies, secret society inductions, Wicca incantations, Egyptian magic spells, pagan mantras—the list was endless.†   (source)
  • "It's written on the rear wall of most chambers like this as a shorthand for the Masonic meditative mantra: Visita interiora terrae, rectificando invenies occultum lapidem."†   (source)
  • The teamwork mantra had set in.†   (source)
  • "I should preface this," she said, "by reminding you of the Masonic mantras to 'gather what is scattered' …. to bring 'order from chaos' …. to find 'at-one-ment.'†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the mirror were some English words I didn't exactly understand but took as a kind of mantra: OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR†   (source)
  • I had to repeat my mantra: Amy killed a man, and she will kill you if you are not very, very careful.†   (source)
  • Mantras.†   (source)
  • I drank more and continued my mantra.†   (source)
  • They're mantras from the Upanishads.†   (source)
  • It became my mantra.†   (source)
  • Matt knew this was some kind of mantra, a thing hippies chanted in Central Park, but could it also be the motto of the 131st Aviation Company?†   (source)
  • She told herself all these things and repeated them almost like a mantra, as if the words would give her the strength to go.†   (source)
  • ] With an almost comfortable distance from the thing itself as it really was, Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.†   (source)
  • Again she repeated Deanna's mantra.†   (source)
  • "There's always tomorrow," Lindsay said to me, when I told her about Rob, and I run the phrase over and over in my head like a mantra: There's always tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Jace knew it meant "the peace that passes understanding" and that you were supposed to say the word three times every time you uttered the mantra, to calm your mind.†   (source)
  • My mantra.†   (source)
  • Not a dream, or a mantra, but a memory.†   (source)
  • Coach Mick's mind-set dovetailed perfectly with my mantra: somewhere he is out there, training while I am not.†   (source)
  • The mantras calmed him as the carriage made its way through many districts, pushing through the throngs of vyes and drunken goblins and other shrieking revelers on this greatest of holidays.†   (source)
  • "A man," she says, like reciting a mantra, "takes care of himself physically, financially, and spiritually.†   (source)
  • In the dining room, using my foot, I traced the sideboard, saying "Screw your courage to the sticking place" as my mantra.†   (source)
  • But she put on her game face and cheerfully reminded the twins, who were four, that it was temporary, while Shawn, who was nine, learned the family mantra: "You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger."†   (source)
  • The mantra is all I've ever needed.†   (source)
  • They'd all survived a hellish week and he'd gone dragging through four club dates coast to coast in a state of graduated disarray and now it was over and he was safe and he was appearing in concert and he should have been standing here chanting Were not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both ways.†   (source)
  • Like her mantra of Oh-please-God-I'mbegging-you-okay; she just did all she could, and eventually something just worked.†   (source)
  • While "cold, wet, sandy" is the theme for BUD/S, "Pays to be a winner" is the mantra of instructors who demand teamwork—anybody who hasn't pulled his weight is long gone by phase two—yet also create competition by offering rewards, usually rest, to those who finish first.†   (source)
  • Matron felt obliged to murmur "Completely useless" on the off chance that if his violence had meaning, God forbid it should fail for lack of its accompanying mantra.†   (source)
  • And that's when I adopted one of my mantras for getting stronger and better and for all my workouts: Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.†   (source)
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