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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. - Arnold Palmer

When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat. - Stephan Labossiere

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. - Chris Rock

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates

it doesn't matter who you are, until you show the world who you are !..لا يهم من انت حتى تظهر للعالم من انت - Hicham LM Kamelionaire

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare

If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing. - C. JoyBell C.

The heart is a home; love should take up all of the rooms. - Matshona Dhliwayo

But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning. - Aimee Herman

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain. - Debasish Mridha

Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success. - Debasish Mridha

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Bertrand Russell

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance... - Edgar Degas

If today is the last day of your life, the one thing you want to say is that you showed up for life. You showed up for your dreams. You showed up for the people who mattered to you. And above all, you showed up for yourself. - Pooja Ruprell

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence. - Mia Hamm

So we must daily keep things wound: that is, we must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain. - Madeleine L'Engle

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage. - Debasish Mridha

Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve? - Saurabh Sharma

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time. - Sara B. Cooper

Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal. - William Shakespeare

Man tends to treat all opinions as principles. - Herbert Agar

Only a few will LEAD; the rest will follow. Who is leading you and what are they leading you to? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

You must never, at any rate, lend yourself to the wrong, in any form, which you condemn. - Mamur Mustapha

Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it." - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane - Freddy Sipho Mahhumane

It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter. - Benjamin Lotter

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models. - Bill Watterson

There's only one thing worse than being sick...and that's being sick and poor. - Lou Silluzio

Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams. - David Arenson

I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff. - Karl Pilkington

What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it? - Sontag, Susan

We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show. - Syd Barrett

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place - Abigail Van Buren

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy. - Augustine of Hippo

What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul... - Gayathri Jayakumar

Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure. - André Alexis

We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences. - Miya Yamanouchi

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same. - Yanni

Every relationship is a trust, for you to learn or be taught; the moment you start seeing relationships as a trust, then you will begin to make the best out of it - TopsyGift

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value. - Thomas Paine

Her gaze traveled across the western sky that was dotted with clouds and was held by the wintry looking sun, so pure, so lovely, and so impossible to touch. Sheila felt that that was how her love was - Out of reach, unquestionably warm, and as certain as the celestial ball. - Shampa Sharma

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. - Jonathan Raban

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple. - Billy Graham

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by - Robert Gately

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know. - Aisha Mirza

Ndani ya sekunde moja baada ya ulimwengu wetu kuumbwa, miaka bilioni kumi na tatu nukta saba tano iliyopita, chembe zote ndogo zinazopatikana ndani ya atomu zilitengenezwa. Zote hizo zimeshapatikana isipokuwa 'Higgs Boson', na 'Higgs Boson' ndiyo ya muhimu kuliko zote. - Enock Maregesi

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be. - Plato

I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all. - Debasish Mridha

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on. - Nirav Sanchaniya

Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove

To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea. - Debasish Mridha

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. - Sivananda Saraswati

Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers - Val McDermid

Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different - Marie Brennan

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art - John Geddes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. - C. JoyBell C.

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. - Chuck Palahniuk

If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it! - Bernard Berenson

Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past. - Kat Lahr

Even pretty faces are mutilated by ugly character - أحمد عمارة

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate. - William Hazlitt

I am still searching for a popular prayer which doesn’t seek materialistic or other benefits from God and is a simple prayer which simply expresses gratitude in Him and believes what He does will be for our best… - Neelam Saxena Chandra

According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy. - Matthieu Ricard

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. - J. Michael Straczynski

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. - Victor Hugo

I am not in a relationship; my heart is - Wrushank Sorte

Meeting the other person half way is great, but the profit starts just beyond this point. - R.A.Delmonico

Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness. - April Young Fritz

The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao. - Lao-tzu

As the smoke clears,I awaken,And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, while I bleed?All my windows still are broken,But I'm standing on my feet. - Demi Lovato

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere. - Sonali Deraniyagala

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t. - Napoleon Hill

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. - Bill Ayers

The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. - Elena Ferrante

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses. - Walter Mosley

Discipline creates ways for the lovers of it. - Sunday Adelaja

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson

Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world. - Roshan Sharma

Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earthContemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the voidStrangely it was in the dark that I found meaning for the light - Neil Leckman

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. - Doris Lessing

Free ourselves from the fear of being unlike others, unloved people, unattractive, unwanted, undesirable or unworthy. Love the way you're to be better person. - Rofithah Omar

A COnNeCtworker is a networker that Considers Others’ Needs Continually. - Michele Jennae

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. - Arne Garborg

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come. - Carol Morgan

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life - Henry David Thoreau

Once alone stop learning, it is also the time when death is imminent. - Bambang,

Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have. - Shannon L. Alder

The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through. - Nikki Rowe

Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later. - Ryan Lilly

Even ivory towers need central heating. - Breyten Breytenbach

It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle.

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning. - Jeffrey Tucker

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Gautama Buddha

The most profound statements are often said in silence. - Lynn Johnston

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. - Leo Babauta

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. - Seeley James

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea. - George Harrison

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell

It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius. - Debasish Mridha

Have you ever thought your friend or loved one had issues and you kept praying for God to change them? Have you ever thought it could be you just need to change your attitude? - Amanda Penland

When you are angry, don’t react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love. - Debasish Mridha

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg. - Frank O'Hara

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures - Imran Khan

Kindness has the warmth in it and it can melt a hateful heart. - Debasish Mridha

challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There are no places in this world where the chit can be concentrated. Without the chit attaining steady-state; the chit can’t be blissful. There are places where the mind can attain a steady state but there are no places where chit’s steady-state can be attained. - Dada Bhagwan

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions. - Dave Champion

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life. - Laura Teresa Marquez

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. - Georgia O'Keffe

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement. - Anna von der Goltz

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls. - Scott Borgman

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,absorbing and thinking, eating each day. - Pablo Neruda

Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better. - David Nicholls

We never understand what we're praying; and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. - Sylvia Plath

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. - Dorothy L. Sayers

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. - E.M. Forster

Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Hate is a word that doesn't hurt but the word I love you hurts when taken advantage - Sofia Reyes

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future. - Kate McGahan

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. - John Henry Cardinal Newman

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Aeschylus

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. - Seneca

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. - George Santayana

Most information doesn’t constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that’s a very different concept from information. - Ian Stewart

The dreamer is the part of the dream that's true. - Marty Rubin

If you don't have good storing to tell on your deathbed, what good was living?

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... - André Gide

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game. - Alan Moore

If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor. - Melody Carstairs

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. - Roy Bennett

I am not apologetic. I don’t define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me. - Debasish Mridha

More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos. - Leonard Seet

Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence. - Natalie Wright

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. - K. Lamb

Selfishness and foolishness go hand in hand ; and its quantity in a person's life only decides as what quality of people s/he has as her/his friend. - Anuj Somany

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t? Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations, Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees. - Jonathan Renshaw

- So you're a masochist.- I know. But what's life rather than walking barefoot? - Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

Murphy's Law: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."

Whatever you do, put all your soul, your spirit and your strength into it. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic. - Anastasia Bolinder

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. - Ken Gire

Many people become prosperous only to realize the illusion that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement. - RVM

live to the fullest or die;and die you will anyway, so start living! - Christopher S. Hyatt

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death. - William Saroyan

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking – their mindsets. - James MacDonald

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned. - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Non sense discussions, have you ever thought that most discussions which you have are useless, pointess?? It's true and that's why I never go out. - Deyth Banger

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,For every man alone thinks he hath gotTo be a phoenix, and that then can beNone of that kind, of which he is, but he. - John Donne

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton

I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place. - Bill Barnes

I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try. - Hilari Bell

I'm a Sociopath! - Kathleen Hubbs

Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures. - Steven Magee

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Mheshimu sana mtu aliyekupandisha juu kwa sababu utakaposhuka ndiye atakayekupokea, ijapokuwa unaweza usishuke kabisa au unaweza kushuka ukapokelewa na mtu mwingine baki, kwa kudura za Mwenyezi Mungu. - Enock Maregesi

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. - John Lescroart

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out. - Waqar Masood

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. - Oprah Winfrey

You can have it all. Just not all at once. - Oprah Winfrey

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most. - Shelly Crane

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Knowing that I have found my soul mate makes my life complete. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' - Steven Wright

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid. - Heather McLaren

I'm cautious with the love word because I really know what it means. I've been there, done that and I know what the implications are. I also know that people say they love people when they don't, and it often results in tears and avoidance of bars, supermarkets, even whole towns in extreme cases. - Jessica Thompson

If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When you change what you believe, you change what you do... which changes what you get. - Odille Rault

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. - Hedy Lamarr

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. - Kenneth Oppel

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace. - Ron Brackin

In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers.-Kenshin to Kaoru - Nobuhiro Watsuki

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - E.M. Forster

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. - Chris Matakas

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. - Joss Whedon

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. - Spider Webb

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. - Maurice Sendak

The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer. - Emil Cioran

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do. - Peter McWilliams

Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

When it comes to personal relationships, there is no greater way to express your commitment or to display your trustwor- thiness than to devote your life to the people you love. - Leon Hayduchok

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions. - Mahatma Gandhi

life is a challenge, which never accept back challenge. Accept is as it is as when it will start ignoring you that will be horrible. - Dr. Ateendra Jha

Gather up all your scattered dreams and build the life you love. - Moosa Rahat

There isn't a man alive who doesn't have the potential to philander, given the right material to philander with." Taryn in A Meeting of a Different Kind - Linda MacDonald

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness. - George Saunders

It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after. - Miles Coverdale

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time. - Asha Tyson

we have faith to sit in a chair, and continue to believe in its foundation that holds us up. If we have faith in God, the foundation will hold us both up, so its our decision to take the seat and trust him. - Trae R. Miller

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. - William Raspberry

I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work. - Compton Gage

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. - J. K. Rowling

I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone. - Steve Maraboli

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do - E.E. Cummings

How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas. - Dada Bhagwan

When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of pure love hidden in my heart. - Debasish Mridha

Time and Tide wait for no Man; what about woman ? How Sexist ! - gaurav rao

to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. - William Shakespeare

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold. - Basava

If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and... No thinking is far better then positive thinking - Ed Strachar

Childhood is trying to find his future and frustrating has become his destiny. - Tanmaya Guru

A person should not misguide own conscience to say to the people that LOVING ONESELF is also BEING TRUE TO ONESELF for there is a sea difference between the two terms. - Anuj Somany

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what - Elena Ferrante

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. - Frank Cottrell Boyce

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. - Edmond de Goncourt

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people. - Stefan Molyneux

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.― - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. - Jane Austen

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks. - Debasish Mridha

Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; - U.S. Congress

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. - A.A. Milne

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? - David Sedaris

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.

...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet. Linus Pauling - Paul Dirac

Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works. - Ed Gray

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away! - Mehmet Murat ildan

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. - David Morrell

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop. - Nuno Roque

The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams. - Ogwo David Emenike

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. - Wernher von Braun

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know? - Michelle Carithers

Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering. - Sunday Adelaja

When people ask me how I am I tell them......"I'm present - Matthew Donnelly

Debt trap can sometimes become a Death trap. - Ankala V Subbarao

First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself. - Patricia Selbert

I will love you forever and that's my vow.I say we can live in the dreams we madeAnd since you built 'em, I know they'll never fade. - Jordan Rains

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her. - Frank Sinatra

The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. - Margaret Bourke-White

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. - Robert Altman

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors. - Sunday Adelaja

A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT! - L. Michelle

I’m an ass, the voice on the phone said. A complete and total ass. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. - John Adams

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression. - Erin Fall Haskell

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door - o.henry

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. - Oprah Winfrey

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. - Muriel Rukeyser

What you create doesn't have to be perfect....Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you—whether that voice comes from the outside or inside - President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation. - Thiruman Archunan

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful. - Richard Flanagan

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself. - E.B. White

Erfarenheten med X hade lärt mig att man inte kan leva genom andra, man kan inte och får inte heller. - Christer Kihlman

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. - Václav Havel

To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change. - Auliq Ice

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. - Tommy Lasorda

The only thing that does not change, is change itself. - Auliq Ice

There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life. - Debasish Mridha

I scanned her soul and found my mate. She is a word of art for the spirit of the eyes ... To see her photos are needless why’s... I see through her... I see my own smiles. - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. - Roger A. Caras

But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold. - Laura McBride

and after everything had been said and done I realized, you cannot keep people no matter how far you go to do so. You don't have any control over what they choose to do. Even if they choose to leave you on your own.Even if they choose to make you hate love - Simran.M.Anthony

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want. - Shannon L. Alder

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. - Israelmore Ayivor

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death. - Debasish Mridha

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true. - Tony Samara

Pain to contain oneself is much more than the pain to achieve his passion. - Loknath

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more - George Gordon Byron

Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents andpurposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

[He] said don't let them take you over. Walk into the room knowing you are the best. Shoulders back, chin up. Their attitudes will totally change. - Misty Copeland

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Greatness is unleashed when you develop faith in the power of your faith. - Phumi Ngwane

Most of us don't have the past in our favor but we have to realize that we still have the present. - VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

To invest into a memory that will only take you down a road that cannot be traveled is futile and counter-productive. It takes us away from the here and now, and it only impedes our well-being when we give nostalgic cadence to this venture. - DC Gunnersen

The best way to love someone is to let them reveal their inner beauty that will enlighten your soul and the heart of the universe. - Debasish Mridha

Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure. - Matshona Dhliwayo

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. - Paulo Coelho

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life. - Lorri Faye

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences. - Ernst Boris Chain

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind. - Shannon L. Alder

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole. - Nayef Al-Rodhan

However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon. - Sope Agbelusi

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream. - Hans Selye

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. - Edward R. Murrow

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear. - Idowu Koyenikan

When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in! - Morrissey

You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Thank you so much for everything, i will never ever forget you o last Sun of the year~I am little sad on your setting, but i have a hope,i have a believe that you will again rise tomorrow for me…i will wait for you…!"SEE YOU - zia

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. - Terry Pratchett

Acaso por ley natural o regla del destino, todo hecho que adquiere alguna trascendencia tiende a repetirse." (Zettel - Filosofía de los gatos) - Claudio Garcia Fanlo

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams! - Israelmore Ayivor

Eyes And Heart Are Too Compatible To Each Other. Through Our Eyes, We Capture Moments And Through Our Heart We Relive Those Moments.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. - Andy Rooney

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. - C. JoyBell C.

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Because of her, there is no bridge between dreams and reality. In reality, because of her, drinking a glass of water has taste. In a dream, it doesn't have taste, unless she's in it with me. I do not have to dream about her, because all of my dreams about her, is my only reality. - Lionel Suggs

Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE. - Cyc Jouzy

It is not too late to fall in love with yourself again. - Debasish Mridha

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did? - Mother Teresa

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them - Anne Tyler

If you don't know who you are, you will never know what belongs to you! - Dr. Gail Hayes

With an enemy like that, who needs friends? - Rick Yancey

True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one. - Ellen J. Barrier

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. - George Bernard Shaw

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. - Sue Grafton

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. - Jane Austen

By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small. - Carrie Underwood

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders. - J.R. Rim

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. - Jonathan Swift

Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess. - C. JoyBell C.

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that. - Laura Marling

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found? - Brian Celio

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. - Douglas Adams

long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep. Luther Burbank - Euripides

Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! - Nikhil Karke

If you scared, say you scared, and if not then push yourself off of that wall and step into the darkness. That's where success is, get up out of that comfort zone, you'll be surprised what you can achieve! - Noel DeJesus

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. - Joni Eareckson Tada

There is no opportunity for a sale at the success store.Find it yourself - Mohammed Sekouty

True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness. - Orrin Woodward

Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971 - Mark Evanier

I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn’t matter - Rebecca Lloyd

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge. - Unarine Ramaru

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. - Cathy Guisewite

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe. - Joe Rogan

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. - Peter York

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obtain a contrite heart, because repentance can only be granted as a miracle of the Holy Spirit, it is a sign that our thinking has been clouded by the Enemy. - M. Basilea Schlink

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. - Johann Sebastian Bach

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. - G. K. Chesterton

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations. - Geoffrey Wood

God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you. - Seth Adam Smith

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There’s still other songs that I think that would never be on the radio that get, it’s a different kind of response. Part II, there’s just nothing like that. That song will never be on a radio station. … that song doesn’t need that sort of following in order to connect. - Hayley Williams

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. - Bob Dylan

If you love everyone and everything sincerely then you are truly at peace. - Matthew Donnelly

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it. - Tim Fargo

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. - Epicurus

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things. - Elizabeth Goudge

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy. - Marty Rubin

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. - Patrick Rothfuss

Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. - Robinson Jeffers

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to intergenerational inequity – a breaking of the social contract between two generations. - Usman W. Chohan

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. - Ernst Haas

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you. - Gary Oldman

Your Dream is not a person when you feel broken and failure enough to say that your dream is dead .Revive it ! don't give up . it's the only thing that makes you not a robot , it's the only thing that makes your life got a meaning . - Amir Shalaby

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. - Marquis de Sade

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. - Bob Dylan

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoléon Bonaparte

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. - Russell Baker

Follow both: the call of the mountain of enlightenment and the temptation of the valley of experience. No mountain without valley, no valley without mountain. - Stefan Emunds

I want and I wish a love like of books - Kat Unda

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters

Time is the ultimate wealth. - Sunday Adelaja

One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told. - Phil Ochs

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. - Alexandra Cruz

A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There's that moment every day when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed you are to winning? How committed you are to being a good friend? To being successful? - Ebelsain Villegas

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. - Kris Kristofferson

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death - Thomas Bernhard

Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted. - Hema Aushat

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer. - Matt Chandler

Clear thinking is to think of nothing at all. - Marty Rubin

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell. - H. L. Mencken

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers - Rasheed Ogunlaru

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent. - Derric Yuh Ndim

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. - Francis G. Thompson

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. - Arthur C. Clarke

INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God." - Ambrose Bierce

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. - Darnell Lamont Walker

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. - Arthur C. Clarke

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing? - Kamand Kojouri

Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual. - Brendan Francis

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? - Marquis de Sade

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. - George Carlin

Do you feel it? That roaring call? - Rosemary A. Johns

You’re not alone. You’re never alone. Use creativity to change what world you’re in at this moment. - E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

The taste death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness. - rishi_328

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms. - Anthony Liccione

Gratitude shouldn't be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude. - Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. - Steven Millhauser

Every new situation requires new strategy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear. - John Kerry

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. - Drew Barrymore

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) - Jim Harrison

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. - George Eliot

A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life. - Stephen Lovegrove

God is our teacher,life is His rod,and eternal life is our reward. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke. - Lao She

Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't - Nicolas Steno

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace.""It doesn't feel very all right.""That's because it's not the end. - David Mitchell

You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves. - Vishwas Mudagal

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

People use what you want against you... without you knowing it. - Deyth Banger

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

God works through angels, people, nature and animals. - Eileen Anglin

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. - Philip Chesterfield

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. - William Hazlitt

Greatness rarely comes easy. - James Boag

Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed. - Nathan Cooper

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. - Charles M. Schulz

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. - Arthur C. Clarke

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge. - Dada Bhagwan

Death is an old joke, but it comes fresh to everyone.

When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter. - Michael S. Horton

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD - Rose De Matta

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. - Bill Watterson

I had lived my life before in accordance with the poverty and itinerancy of my childhood, sliding in and out of other people’s leases, never expecting to stay very long and tolerating circumstances that strike me now as completely absurd. - Kathleen Alcott

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. - Toni Cade Bambara

I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt - Mk.

I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. - Jim Henson

Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity—the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love. - Eileen Egan

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) - Abhimanyu Jha

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried. - Harper Lee

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful… - Pablo

As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu. - Chris Matakas

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. - Mary Shelley

Dare to research on the originality of any information. - Lailah Gifty Akita

My breath caught fire and my heart leapt infinite beats within his proximity."Wreck me, tame me. The way you want it." I whispered my plea.His foggy grey eyes glinted with desire and lust. "I will". The two words were my end as well as the beginning of something new and insurmountable between us. - niki_g

Had I owned the words I would've told him what my heart intuited - that joy and sorrow often travel the same road and sometimes, whether by grace or misfortune, they meet and become each other's companion. - Ratner, Vaddey

The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible. - Jamie McGuire

Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values. - Darrell Calkins

Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever. - William Saroyan

Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths. - Matshona Dhliwayo

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the page. And within those scratched words, those small, sharp incisions, an image can be seen and you're left to wonder what, in the end, this all could mean. - Hubert Martin

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. - Diana Wynne Jones

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . . - George Gissing

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! - C. JoyBell C.

Sky is the limit for a person's character, even when it's falling. - Rushabh Patel

How can a falling dove turn again into a flying dove once again? It really takes the eyes of someone who sees you for the beauty that you really are. And if there are no other eyes there to see you in that way, then you had better be those pair of eyes, for yourself, to see yourself with! - C. JoyBell C.

We can live such a more abundant life when we simply embrace the journey as much as we desire the destination. - Allen Dominique

I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it. - Sarah McCarry

If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level? - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster. - Jimmy Spithill

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them. - Marilyn French

In those days, he said the following: I can only give you a little; but that little, I give to you with love. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There is no adventure without risk, and no exhilaration like adventure. - A.R. Ivanovich

Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero. - Josh Rose

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. - W.E. Woodward

My favourite conversations are those with the universe, I speak all that I am and the most beautiful response flies a shooting star across the sky, it's proof ~ vibrations of light have the capacity to change our world. - Nikki Rowe

Life is all about Re-Inventing Yourself, so that you can rejoice every moment, just un-learn and let-go of the past and no sooner you do it, you stay afresh and are born again! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. - Steven Magee

Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. - Anonymous

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. - Glenn Duncan

The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of. - Akshay Vasu

In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong. - Richard Powers

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it - John C. Maxwell

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice! - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man. - David O. McKay

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. - Quentin Tarantino

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice. - Jay Leno

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan

Weeping is like cleansing your soul. It's liberating and somber. - Anna Rindfleisch

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. - Horace

It's through difficulty that we must discover our true ability. - Chris Burkmenn

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise. - Amit Kalantri

People don't love people, people love people's status. - Shakena Morgan

Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. - George Bernard Shaw

Consistency matters. You must learn that giving people a consistent high-quality product is of importance, like building trust across your brand. This build relational wealth - people want to know what they are about to step into and with whom. - Nicole Dominique Le Maire

You did not choose this path for yourself - it is the path that was chosen for you. That is the way life works at time. However, the choices you make as you travel the path are always yours and you must make them wise choices - Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question. - Richelle Mead

The only power that I want to use is the power of love. - Debasish Mridha

Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. - Euginia Herlihy

There is always a comma to check whether are we going to do the same mistake which we have done before?" But proble is that we never use this comma. - Vaibhav Soni

The Bible is a handbook for successful living – put together by the Creator for His creation - Eve Juurik

It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted. - Matt Chandler

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Lighter is the wound foreseen. - Cato the Elder

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been. - Abba Eban

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. - Tamara L. Chilver

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret - hlbalcomb

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. - Epicurus

Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other's. - Aditya Ajmera

What happens in you is more important than what happens to you. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember. - Rushabh Patel

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you. - M.F. Moonzajer

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. - Richard de Bury

Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last. - mr. sid

We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live. - Marty Rubin

Let not pain ruin you. Make it a motivation for you to change and live a new life, instead. - Val Irvin Mabayo

Government itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in government – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death. - - Larken Rose

One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. - Luciano Pavarotti

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Robert J. Hanlon

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue. - Mary E. Pearson

She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. - Agatha Christie

Greatness radiates from the lights of love and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods. - Hanimoz Obey

Aspirations forms the plot of success. - Michael Bassey Johnson

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. - Søren Kierkegaard

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart. - Debasish Mridha

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life. - Lynn A. Robinson

Live positively.Live gratefully.Live blissfully.Live lovingly. - Matshona Dhliwayo

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" - - Socrates

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us. - Balroop Singh

Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned super hero, and underneath, was everything I need. Her super powers on top of me. - J. Raymond

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place. - Karen Salmansohn

There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. - Anonymous

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. - Cindy Gardner

Create from the heart. - A.D. Posey

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing. - Ilias Oumarri

You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something. - Debasish Mridha

The universe created us to be happy. - Debasish Mridha

Unhealthy gossiping is one way that divides heaven and hell. - Deeksha Mittal

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. - Compton Mackenzie

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. - William Makepeace Thackeray

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck

If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up--no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything. - Millicent Ashby

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality. - Marty Rubin

There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you - just listen to them. - Terry Hayes

It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination! - John Di Lemme

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return. - Daniel Willey

I loved the sea as much as he does.. Today I know it is more than fate, more than destiny.. You and Me are one Sea. ! - jmemo

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. - William Shakespeare

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. - Rebecca McNutt

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. - Roy Bennett

Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything. - Saru Singhal

See the world as it is; strive to make it as it should be. - Matshona Dhliwayo

if you are falling for a new person, you haven't attempted the first one with full heart.... - Ankit Jadhav

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. - Steve Maraboli

There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind. - Randy Gardner

We all need a muse. Someone to inspire us, to help us see the world with different eyes, and makes us want to be better than we are. - MJ Natali

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone. - Patrick Ness

Looks like I'm going to have to kill him with kindness. That's the way Gran always taught me to treat people who were mean to me. - Michelle A. Valentine

If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve. - Tony Curl

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves. - Diego Rivera

To love you would have to relate, you are a more perfect being if your own existence is logically impossible. - Henry Johnson Jr

The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you. - Pooja Ruprell

Emotional awareness is the tether between our Awakened and Dream States. It is the bridge that connects our island in the physical realm to the unexplored Universes that are waiting for us. - Gary Hopkins

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions. - Charles Bukowski

What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.

The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it. - Hiba Fatima Ahmad

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. - Marty Rubin

One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic. - Stephen Lewis

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller. - Stefan Fatsis

I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet. - Auliq Ice

I have ugly hands, but I'm grateful 'coz they work beautifully! - Margo Vader

PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes -- O'er Ceylon blow your breath, Where every prospect pleases, Save only that of death. Bishop Sheber - Ambrose Bierce

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! - Michael Landon

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers

The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers. - Steven Magee

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. - Eugène Ionesco

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark. - Raymond Carver

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? - Arundhati Roy

Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers. - Harley King

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all. - Jo Linsdell

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. - Albert Camus

You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau

He who walks with the wise goes farther than he who runs with fools. - Matshona Dhliwayo