Quotation Explorer - 'But'

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels. They can be changes from the status quo or changes from what was expected, but whatever form they take, it is changes that make us happy or miserable. - Richard H. Thaler

I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical…a man and woman have to be somewhat equal…as in, one of them can't always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. - Stephanie Meyer

Never live in the past; were it good to do so, butterflies would crawl back into their cocoons. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. - Aldus Manutius

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. - Fanny J. Crosby

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. - James Thurber

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can do that. - Debasish Mridha

She, the clear heart'ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it. - Priyavrat Thareja

Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to. - Davin Turney

Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, "I'm still here." So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in. - Tommy Cooper

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made. - Jason Versey

I'm not afraid to dieno today . . . maybe tomorrow.But I'll not dieno today . . . maybe tomorrow.Tomorrow I will go awayfrom this life that I've just borrowed! - John Zea

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. - Bertolt Brecht

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. - Mark Twain

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Everyone make mistakes and you learn a lesson from them. But, sometimes just one mistake made in influence of something can ruins your whole life. - Sammy Toora

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. - Roy T. Bennett

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. - Robert Fanney

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. - Saint Frances de Sales

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. - Jane Austen

"We regularly attribute our own failures to circumstance and the failures of others to bad character."

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader. - Indy Bissessur

The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable; now we see them and pass by....that's what i call GROWTH. Some will take 20 yrs to know this growth but those that feed on the Word have instant growth and prosperity. God be praised - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out.

Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity. What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation of adversity we become stronger. - - Michael Joling

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory. - Orrin Woodward

One can be kind,one can be helpful,but it takes a heart and an effort to understand. - Bikash Chaurasiya

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. - Thomas Carlyle

It's just me throwing myself at you,romance as usual, us times us,not lust but moxibustion,a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation. - Alice Fulton

Do no harm, but take no shit. - laiseen

If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations. - Nikita Dudani

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge is always there but wisdom is very rare. - Debasish Mridha

...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. - Lois McMaster Bujold

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests - Rasheed Ogunlaru

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - ilana Graf

you want to be angry but you can’t stop looking and when you look you love and when you love the entire world unfolds around you - Sina Queyras

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded. - Dorit Brauer

Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end. - Keri Hulme

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. - Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad. - Friedrich Hayek

We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it. - Debasish Mridha

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. - Jack Steinberger

The Wolf trusts the universe... Because, she chose a form that made him feel comfortable... THE MOON... And not only because it listened to his howl… but it followed what he said in actions - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise. - Brandi L. Bates

There Are No Coincidences, Only Reasons Why and Timing is Key! That is My Life Quote and made up and used by me specifically, everyday because I not only believe it but live it every single day. - Elaine Breault

Peace is not the absence of war,but the presence of love and care.Peace is not the absence of agony,but the presence of joy of harmony.Peace is not the absence of poverty,but the presence of love for beauty.Peace is not the absence of intolerance. Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance. - Debasish Mridha

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon. - Ameya Agrawal

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue! - Israelmore Ayivor

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion - Joe Abercrombie

I believe that many sacrifices need to be made in order to do your best as a parent, but I also believe you don't have to abandon your whole life. - Holly Madison

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight - Lana Del Rey

The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes. - George MacDonald

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. - Seneca

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself. - Testy McTesterson

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

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

There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Always have class but always kick ass. - A.D. Posey

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. - Asa Don Brown

Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. - Mahatma Gandhi

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. - Niccolo Machiavelli

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Pat Monahan

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened? - Israelmore Ayivor

I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real? - Audrey Regan

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer - Shanna LaFleur

Man is meant for good but designed for evil. - Raheel Farooq

History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it. - Todd Stocker

Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped. - Israelmore Ayivor

Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened. - Kindle Alexander

The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it - Anonymous

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. - Andy Goldsworthy

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns - Stephen Baxter

Nothing but education defines the future of a person and the future of a nation. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain. - Yehuda Amichai

Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt to capture someone’s spirit. That is theirs, and theirs alone. - Pen

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. - Andrew Davidson

Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it. - Debasish Mridha

A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back. - J. N. HALM

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. - Chris Hedges

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. - Elisabeth Elliot

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. - Charles Bradlaugh

Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. - David Brooks

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt

When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime. - Anthony Liccione

Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love. - Debasish Mridha

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance. - Jay Woodman

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. - Amos Tversky

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that. - Sarah Rees Brennan

But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace. - Sheryl Sandberg

Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart. - Shannon L. Alder

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder

I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. - Charles E. Coughlin

We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference. - Gary Revel

I AM NOT QUICK,NOT STRONG AS A BRICK,ME NEVER HAPPINESS PICK,IN MY DECISION I STICK,PEOPLE TRY TO TRICK,BUT MY HEART IS THICK. - merlin8thomas

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. - Edgar Allan Poe

But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more! - Jiddu Krishnamurti

I took her to bed with silk and song'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,I must prepare my body for passion.''O, your body you give, but all else you ration... - Roman Payne

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. - Katherine Paterson

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?Are you calling me stupid?Yes, but in a more poetic way!Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost! - Colleen Houck

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. - Rob Thurman

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. - Dorothy Parker

Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men - Amen Muffler

I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know. - Nikki Rowe

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. - Paulo Coelho

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged. - Rob Liano

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. - Sandra Chami Kassis

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. - Lauren Oliver

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. - Monica Fairview

But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?" "Theirs. - Yiyun Li

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart! - Varsha Dixit

If you love something, Set it free... If it comes back, it's yours, If it doesn't, it never was yours.... " But if it comes back and dies, It wasn't ever real. - Day

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them. - Pam Davis

Love has a beginning but love has no ending. - Debasish Mridha

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. - Samuel Johnson

There is but one solution: I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, or talk. They all have their place, but if the basis isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are all in vain. - W. Cameron Townsend

The only difference between a human and animal is that a Human can worship God but Animal can't. Fulfill the purpose for which actually you have taken birth. - Aakash Sharma

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. - Jerry Seinfeld

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen. - Nathan Filer

A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with. - Unarine Ramaru

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice. - Joyce Rachelle

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis

You fulfill your hearts universal desire for love not by accumulating, but by giving. - Debasish Mridha

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. - Confucius

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing

A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed - Brian Leslie

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more. - Anne Tyler

In life, you don’t have miracles, you don’t have anything but whatever you can hold on to. - Nandanie Phalgoo

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. - Alice Walker

They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance. - Emily Thorne

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. - Jeanne d'Arc

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal. - Edward Short

Never give up, but learn to surrender as well - Zain Baloch

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self. - Jane Hirshfield

Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose - Russ

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior. - Daya Kudari

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear. - George Bernard Shaw

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.

But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick. - Brandon S. Graham

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance - C. William Beebe

They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. - Steven Wright

I can resist everything but love. - Debasish Mridha

Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again. - Saleem Durrani

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We talk relationship but we live religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion - Mark Cowper-Smith

Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair! - Ramana Pemmaraju

We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time. - Debasish Mridha

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. - Richard Avedon

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard

I don't mined being lied to, but what ever you do never betray me - pikmin100xx

Most people like to be rich, but they don’t know that the rich people are the unhappy bunch. Always marrying at least 3 times, always having drinking or drug problems and always think they are smartest one around, when in fact they can’t name 2 capitals from Europe without a Google search. - Mircea Popister

This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher. - Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin

Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love. - Debasish Mridha

Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around. - Lennox D.Lampkin

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - Anonymous

I know it's painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong. Obviously. - Touaxia Vang

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. - DaShanne Stokes

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it. - Madeleine L'Engle

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone. - Zayn Malik

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up. - Patrick Rothfuss

Dont regret that it just got over, but instead Move on for More! - Steven Singh Babbar

What is birthday, but a celebration of death. - Aphole

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth - William Shakespeare

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top. - Gugu Mona

Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other - Anamika Mishra

Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I have always been a timid person but my life has required me to be courageous. - Rosa Parks

A man becomes God. This is the culture of life power of a human being. This is such a culture of unimaginable life power.The term God is the self -prejudiced word. This is used to explain the thing. But whatever happens is encircling a man. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got. - Gugu Mona

It’s not enough to hear someone else’s voice or to sing someone else’s song or to play the note that you heard someone else play. I had to tune into my sound and by doing so, I have recovered not only the sound of my voice but the sound of my life. - Suzette Hinton

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. - Steve Erickson

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. - Simone de Beauvoir

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

life is not about how fast you start,but how the end is going to be ,so don't worry when others are ahead of you.just keep on doing what you have been doing. - lexis smigz

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. - Ptolemy

Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it’s not easy to rejoin. It’s very easy to say ‘I don’t trust you’, but the pain these words cause is immense. - Faraaz Kazi

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. - E.L. Konigsburg

We all believe that, we can’t buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property. - M.F. Moonzajer

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things. - Morrissey

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters

You must take these poems as mirrors; for you know that the mirror has no form of itself, but rather reflects the face of anyone who looks in it. Just so a poem has no one particular meaning of itself , but presents to each reader his state of the moment and the completeness of his case - Ayn al-Qazat Hamadani Persian Mystic

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed. - Cormac McCarthy

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new. - Dennis Vickers

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. - Kenneth Koch

I had a tumor. But it was great. - David Rakoff

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you've become. - Joan Posivy

A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. - Gary Edward Gedall

We must live a life that is not geared towards living today but our existence after existing and exiting the earth. We must think of our footprints that will long exist after our existence come to its ebb. We must get reasons for existing. For what reasons are you existing? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped. - George Orwell

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what thejob was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied. "Earning my living," the second said. "Helping tobuild a cathedral," said the third. - P. Schultz

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live. - Peprah Boasiako

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does. - Anonymous

Education without discipline and integrity is a wasteA man who acquires school certificates but lacks self discipline and integrity is not educated. - OMOSOHWOFA CASEY

Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy. - Debasish Mridha

some of the best music was composed by Beethovan,but he was deaf,some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton,but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible... - Shibin Mohammed

As a teen, you're constantly trying to figure out who you are... But it's okay not to know right now. Your whole life you're going to be growing and changing.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning. - Dada Bhagwan

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. - Audre Lorde

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. - Diana Gabaldon

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else. - Rati Tsiteladze

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one. - Greta Christina

Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists. - David G. McAfee

Heaven is always there for us; but this life... this life is a gift to us. - C. JoyBell C.

All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Faith is simply jumping from heights and believing that the parachute activation button won't disappoint. - Seun Ayilara

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions. - Mircea Popister

Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live. - Shannon Leto

Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. - Bob Smith

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. - Buddha

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy. - T. Harv Eker

I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive. - David W. Earle

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. - David Lee Roth

You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick. - Donna Lynn Hope

Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive. - Ogwo David Emenike

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves. - R.C. Sproul

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

For many are called, but few are chosen. - Bible

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. - Donna Lynn Hope

Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, - Mais de l'amertume des hommes) - Charles de Leusse

If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact. - Hugh Macleod

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. - Pico Iyer

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world. - Sara Sheridan

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger. - Debasish Mridha

People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win. - Stewart Stafford

The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember every one of us is responsible to make the world a joyful place. - Debasish Mridha

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. - Walt Whitman

I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. - Morrissey

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy. - Sherry Argov

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain

Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle. - Scott Westerfeld

A girl is not a predictable book but is a closed diary - ashadnan

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. - John Keats

Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding. - Yovanny Alfonso

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

A sales person who makes no or less sales gets often the verbal bashing, but other sales people who make good sales keeping long payment outstanding get usually the tacit pampering. Such is the understanding of most higher-ups in an organisation about the sales & marketing. - Anuj Somany

Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a destiny fulfilled. - Rome Sims

The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams; each sparks with fire and guides its light homeward when a dream is revealed - Basith

Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away! - Israelmore Ayivor

I shook Alan’s hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you’re looking for what to say and it’s on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you. - Pamela Alvarado

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. - John Green

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. - L. M. Montgomery

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. - George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I think of my life as a sitcom. But in reality, life is more than a series of memorable events that bring out the Meg Ryan in us. Life happens in the gaps between scenes. We live in the fade-to-blacks. - Dorothy Angle

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. - Daniel Radcliffe

Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal - emma mckenzie

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination - K. Lamb

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. - Deepak Chopra

may all your dream's come true but you still have to do and more doso till the day comedream - مصطفي سليمان

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling. - J.K. Rowling

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them. - Vironika Tugaleva

The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising. - Emily Post

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. - Richard M. Nixon

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries. - Thomas Mallon

व्यक्ति अपने विचारों से निर्मित एक प्राणी है, वह जो सोचता है वही बन जाता है.A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices. - Michael Bassey Johnson

No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.""Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?""No.""Then you didn't even get a taste. - Jennifer A. Nielsen

[Home educator] sometimes teaching and parenting is tough stuff. That is the reality of the calling. I hope ... [do] not quit or give up hope but keep moving forward on the path where God guides you. - Tamara L. Chilver

Face it―nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn't diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so they can't say the same thing. - Richelle E. Goodrich

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. - Søren Kierkegaard

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any. - Vincent Van Gogh

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer. - Stephen Richards

Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter. - Auliq Ice

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad. - John Green

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too. - Audrey Niffenegger

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal. - Bill Rodgers

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more. - Andy Warhol

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. - Anne Gracie

this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power. - Titus Lucretius Carus

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart. - Mahalia Jackson

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance. - Unarine Ramaru

People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile. - Karon Waddell

Often pain is not real but just a perception. - Debasish Mridha

You can curse the moonCurse the day your’re bornBut the pilot of your plane is youWe’re all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you canThe Light Said (The First Song album) - Phyllis Wheaton

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow. - Shannon L. Alder

He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for in the end our bodies know only how to carry on surviving.That is our strength, and our tragedy. - Nick Lake

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. - Ernest Hemingway

To a writer, self-doubt is horrible. But what if you didn't have it, where would the challenge be? - Mekiah Johnson

You are not for everyone. But you are for someone. - Julieanne O'Connor

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea. - Joseph Conrad

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. - Banksy

As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better. - D. Morgenstern

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. - Aldous Huxley

To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage. - Debasish Mridha

Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says See Naples and die but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for. - Arthur John Strutt

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add sheep was a tautology. - Mark Twain

If a man wants to get married to a woman, it's a human right.If a man wants to get married to a man, it's a human right. If a women wants to get married to a woman, it's a human right.You can take anything away, but not a human right. - Mekiah Johnson

Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well. - Marinela Reka

To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends. - Cassandra Clare

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan

185. Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the work feels arduous, never feels to me like "a hard day's work." Often it feels more like balancing two sides of an equation - occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a hard and passing rain. It, too, kills the time. - Maggie Nelson

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. - Joanna Field

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims? - Robert F. Kennedy

In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants. - M.R. Carey

Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount. - C. JoyBell C.

I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world. - Deyth Banger

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. - Mark Twain

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. - Charles Baudelaire

Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life - Moywaywa

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane. - Lena Dunham

Life by default is meaningless, but the beauty of life is that we give it meaning. - Holly Wujcik

We don't get to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us, but we can choose to believe what He says about us. - Angie Smith

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. - Ernest Dimnet

I can push them away, fight them, or ignore them but family is something you can never get rid of. - Joyce Guo

Sometimes people gone but the memories stay in our memories . . . . . . - Awais Waleed Ismail

An alternative to love is not hate but patience. - Santosh Kalwar

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. - Thomas P. Gore

Proverbs 28:26Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe. - Anonymous

The fact regularly faced in telling people first the odd truths is that some don’t openly reflect, but most outrightly reject; and when it turns out to be correct publicly, they accept only to give often its credit to a person who desires but doesn’t deserve respect. - Anuj Somany

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a Christian but the truth is we respond from very different world-views - Sunday Adelaja

People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved. - Jaeda DeWalt

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. - Mahatma Gandhi

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. - Linda Kaplan Thaler

Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them. - Emily Thorne

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston S. Churchill

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. - Lemony Snicket

Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change. - Robert Waterman, Jr.

It is not the class you come from, but that with which you carry yourself that matters most. - Carl W. Brand

Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer. - Janet Crain

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside. Something inside me is wrong. Sure, there are things in my life that make me feel alone, but nothing makes me feel more isolated and terrified than my own voice inside my head. - Jasmine Warga

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it - Max Lucado

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable. - Catherine Deneuve

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. - Edmund Burke

The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. - Israel M. Kirzner

I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones. - Robert M. Drake

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. - Bela Lugosi

I can give not what men call love;But wilt thou accept notThe worship the heart lifts aboveAnd the heavens reject not:The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that. - Frederick Backman

It hurt when someone lies to you, and you know that. But you believe him instead because you love him. - Eyden I.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. - Louise Bourgeois

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas H. Huxley

We have to change every day to survive, but we fear change the most. - Debasish Mridha

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. - Leo Szilard

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive. - Shaun Hick

Revenge is a kind of justice. But it is applicable only in wild and lawless places. Says Bhutta - M.K. Bhutta

To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes - Mohammed Sekouty

I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away. - Philip Catshill

There are many levels of consciousness, but atomic consciousness or universal consciousness is the basis of all other levels of consciousness. A tree is very much conscious even though in our point of view they are not conscious. - Debasish Mridha

A mistake may mark a man, but admiting a mistake is the mark of a man.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines. - Morten Høgsberg

They are not true as a thought but they are going in mind and are screwing everthing in mind - Fuck them! - Deyth Banger

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever. - Debasish Mridha

Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope." - George Matheson

Love lies in our power, but not understanding. - Marty Rubin

It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them. - Dominic Riccitello

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. - Vincent van Gogh

At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known. - Josephine Johnson

By telling lie you can hide the truth, but u can't reject it. - Munendra Dwivedi

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it. - Marty Rubin

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same. - Haruki Murakami

Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it. - Joel Spolsky

The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making you sad, for the things you had and will never have again. - T.A

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures. - Debasish Mridha

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Sometimes, God puts you in a position where you have no option but to trust Him. - Steven Chopade

The music of kindness may be short lived, but its echoes are everlasting. - Debasish Mridha

Other's success is not your failure, but your success can be other's failure. - Azza Nazh

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."[Letter, November 1856] - Hector Berlioz

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. - Albert Camus

Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life. - Imania Margria

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Søren Kierkegaard

The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty - Sunday Adelaja

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. - Jay Woodman

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may be came from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche

I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. - Sammy Davis Jr.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. - Eric Hoffer

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble. - Amit Kalantri

It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers. - Debasish Mridha

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P. J. O'Rourke

I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it. - Unarine Ramaru

Perhaps the only way to be often happy with everything happening around or anywhere is to feel nothing about anything and anyone, but always bear in mind that only a lunatic stays in such mood. - Anuj Somany

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is. - Lenny Bruce

I know it's crazy to believe in silly things, but it's not that easy - kodaline

There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that. - Shane L. Koyczan

Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love. - Debasish Mridha

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine! - Jason Mraz

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit. - McCallister Dodds

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have my own ego, greed, love and a passion but sometime that same greed and ego kneels me down. In that moment I don't kneel and cry for my ego but I will clear a dirt over my pant and run for my passion. Ego can kill us but not your passion not your love. Move On!!! - Sakin Maharjan

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around you.Always look for the good in people. In most cases you will find it. - Loretta Livingstone

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

you don't want to be hurt that's why you throw your fellow sheep away yes you will no longer be hurt but the sheep you throw away is now walking to dark forest where a hungry pack of wolves are waiting, where he will face death. - darwin araman ergina

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself. - Building 429

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them. - Rodger Kamenetz

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. - John Henry Jowett

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart. - Jodi Picoult

I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint...here lately, being around you is agony. - Jackson Broussard

To err is human, but is feels divine. - Mae West

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life. - Debasish Mridha

Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying. - Pamela Anderson

The kind-hearted won't inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live. - Marty Rubin

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905) - O. Henry

I am Not independent But I am dependent to Christ. - Dariush Youkhaneh

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed. - Elizabeth Aston

You'll never fly, if you're too scared of the height,You'll never live if you're just too scared to die,Everybody wants heaven, I knowBut darling freedom ain't free, it's a long roadYou'll never find your place up there in the skyIf you never say goodbye. - Hardwell & Dyro & Bright Lights

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. - J. R. R. Tolkien

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. - W. Somerset Maugham

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol?? - Amber J.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Maybe there’s a God aboveBut all I’ve ever learned from loveWas how to shoot at someone who outdrew youIt’s not a cry you can hear at nightIt’s not somebody who has seen the lightIt’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce

I could give up, it's the easiest optionBut what would I achieve? Many sleepless nights holding regretOf all I didn't seek, That option will never exist to me; My dreams are far too real, Down the hard road I findMy place in the world; the closest To home Ill ever feel. - Nikki Rowe

The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell. - Alexander Chase

A man can deceive a women, so can a woman deceive a man; but if both are deceived its LOVE! - Ramana Pemmaraju

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. - Swedish Proverb

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Your outcome is not necessarily decided by your income, but by your outlook. To improve your out look, look inwards. - Roy Smoothe

The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. - Brett Butler

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had. - Jerry Garcia

Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power. - Nick Shamhart

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer. - Amen Muffler

I hope to offer the personal as a way to connect to the universal, not a claim for one universal experience of having breasts, but a universal hope for kindness—to each other and our selves and our bodies. - Ruth Daniell

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. - Will Rogers

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault - Kanye West

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all they mean is that one should associate himself, "sign up" with some religious group. Stand up and be counted. As if religion were somehow primarily a matter of gregariousness... - Thomas Merton

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss. - H.W. Brands

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written. - Debasish Mridha

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves - Augustine of Hippo

You should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know that you're always making a choice.

Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession. - Amit Kalantri

Everybody wants a perfect face, which able to attract others, but without perfect teeth you can’t show yourself to others but everything is possible if you have strong desire to change your look,So Cal Dental care presents Cosmetic Dentistry treatment in North Hollywood. - So Cal dental

Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them. - Udayveer Singh

An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated. - Fakeer Ishavardas

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist. - honeya

Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation. - Sandeep Kakkar

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. - Menander

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely. - Anthony Marais

Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your mind. You need to make adjustments and change your way of thinking. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult. - Debasish Mridha

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy

But what if you're wrong?What if there's more?What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What if He's more than enough?What if it's love? - Nichole Nordeman

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. - Richard Feynman

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. - Yehuda Bauer

Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow. - Debasish Mridha

Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind. - Deyth Banger

I is Jovial. I is Optimistic. I is Antsy. I is Noteworthy. I is Nervy. I is Ambitious.But altogether ME is JOANNA.WHO ARE YOU ALTOGETHER???? - JOANNA SK

...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. - Adolf Hitler

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them. - Stephanie Klein

Science is nothing but perception. - Plato

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. - Steve Maraboli

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful - Gwyneth Lewis

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather

No one here to count your Qualities, but everyone is good enough to point out your Mistakes. - Shashank Rayal

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever live in people’s hearts. - Karon Waddell

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. - Farrah Fawcett

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice. - Elizabeth Brooks

In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently. - Debasish Mridha

Philosophy may not follow any laws but it always follows our perceptions. - Debasish Mridha

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving. - Debasish Mridha

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. - Charles F. Stanley

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world. - Germany Kent

I meet & deal with so many ‘things’ in my life. But I am ‘love’ & nothing in this life matters to me more than my faith in who I am. - Abhinav Srivastava

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.Dragging him with her! - V.S. Carnes

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself. - Alegna G. Granados

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. - William Gibson

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. - Immanuel Kant

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. - Frank Zappa

Prin liniștea ei, din care lipsea orice nuanță de surpriză, prin simplitatea ei, izbutea să înlăture orice convenție, făcându-l să înțeleagă cât de firesc era, pentru doi vechi prieteni care aveau să-și spună atâtea, să caute să fie singuri. - Edith Wharton

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. - Mark Twain

SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. - Woody Allen

Ask any dreamer, it's not an easy road, But to them; they never questioned, what they'd always known. - Nikki Rowe

We Live and we Learn but we don't always Laugh. - Andrew Carson

The reality of the reality show on TV is that its quality standard is not defined by the performance of the participants but by the presentation of honesty in selection of the people as its judge celebrity. - Anuj Somany

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. - A.A. Milne

A mind who is materialistic by nature can’t ever find own heart in the work, so s/he may appear effective only for the time being but could never truly be a productive person or a creative soul. - Anuj Somany

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Baruch Spinoza

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Henry Huxley - Hobbes

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile. - Kiara Maharaj

A private organisation may not have sufficient apple or other essential ingredients in its monthly stock, but its top brass will only talk about individual’s performance pie i.e. achievement vs target of apple-pie sales in the meeting. - Anuj Somany

Your passion sustains you. Your purpose is why you were created. Follow your passion but ensure you fulfill your purpose. - Kemi Sogunle

Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence. - Emily Thorne

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man - Honoré de Balzac

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK. - LS.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive. - Muriel Rukeyser

Whenever someone shares a thought that says ‘Follow your heart but take your brain with you’, it just reminds about the childhood story in which a monkey applies his brain to misguide the crocodile by saying that he has kept his heart on the tree. - Anuj Somany

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected. - Anthony Liccione

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. - Andrew Jackson

A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

A majority of the people do not actually lend their support to the authority, but just repay the debt to the favour received from her/him. - Anuj Somany

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success - Binye Vincent

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. - William Shakespeare

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. - Thomas Jefferson

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. - Ambrose Bierce

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams. - Dennis L. McKiernan

Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. - Douglas Adams

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful. - Charlotte Eriksson

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do. - James Pritchert

History rhymes, but geography endures. - Andrew C. Katen

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come. - Kemi Sogunle

I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly. - Dan Howell

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other. - Marcel Duchamp

Dear Lover...you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart. - Lori Jenessa Nelson

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it. - Iain Thomas

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death - Manuel Newton-Management Consultant Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM etc

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. - John Wesley

[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others. - John Wiswell

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. - Giordano Bruno

Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions - Stuart Christie

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart. - African Proverb

When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. - P. J. O'Rourke

If there isn't now, there isn't past, if there isn't past there isn't future... What if everything has happen in one day but in different periods???Can I say this?? - Deyth Banger

Love is the matter of souls....in which body is trivial aspect but the tragic part is that people believe what is seen. - Anonymous

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer - Rainer Maria Rilke

But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in. - Josephine Johnson

The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age - Porcupine Tree

I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen. - Shellen Lubin

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

In order for someone to follow you, you must be true to heart and purpose. This is true in any relationship. Someone may follow you for awhile without it, but not a lifetime. - Jean Williams

When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen... It's small thing, but means a lot... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen......it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget..... - Nutan Bajracharya

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace. - Rich Mullins

Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe. - Debasish Mridha

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home. - Shannon L. Alder

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. - Napoléon Bonaparte

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. - Carl Sagan

Many relationships are give & take but the most successful ones are give & give. - Mark Hewer

Rich in material, but Devoid of knowledge is like having an antique clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but useless in the modern world. - Andrea L'Artiste

I'm just like the tree... strong-looking but slowly dying. - Chicha Bans

Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical.... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her. - Julia Child

It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born. - C. JoyBell C.

I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name. - Nikki Rowe