Quotation Explorer - 'But'

Life is serious but art is fun! - John Irving

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine. - Sri Aurobindo

The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path. - Pooja Ruprell

When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn't mean they're unexpressed," murmured Hermione. - Bex-chan

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.It receives but does not keep.

Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box. - Heidi Reagan

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. - Robert E. Lee

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong. - Veronica Roth

I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I am the strength in weakness. I am the confidence in the midst of doubt. I am Her! - Kierra C.T. Banks

It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it’s happiness but pretty darn awful if it’s anything sad. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

You can do something, but not everything. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. - Ambrose Bierce

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world. - Debasish Mridha

I lived once but the emotions killed me always! - Xain Sheikh

I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird. - Dominic Riccitello

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? - Franz Kafka

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly. - Sabrina Newby

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. - Martin Luther King Jr.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. - Ambeth R. Ocampo

You can be an unhappy person, but you must never be a hopeless person! You can be an unsuccessful person or a defeated or an abandoned unlucky person, but you must never be a hopeless person! Being hopeless is the worst of the worst, it is the ultimate worst! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy. - Debasish Mridha

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. - Seneca

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. - J. K. Rowling

Never Kill your What Ifs,But first be Grateful for What Is. - drishti bablani

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it. - Joe Cawley

Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. - William Cowper

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now - Arthur Miller

Never give up but never forget to grow up. - Debasish Mridha

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.... - Gordon B. Hinckley

Time is often wasted by those who don't understand that time is worth more than money because when lost, money can be regained but time cannot. - Gugu Mona

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. - Anne Frank

Gold may shine; but it has no true light. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted. - Kealohilani

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Men feel cherished when they are needed. Women feel cherished when they are loved.Indonesian version (Bahasa):Kaum pria jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dibutuhkan.Kaum wanita jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dicintai. - John Gray

Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare. - Farshad Asl

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. - Jasper Johns

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures. - Ambrose Bierce

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. - Alexander Pope

I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra - Ben Mitchell

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine. - Billy Collins

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty. - Shannon L. Alder

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson. - Marie-Pierre Moine

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. - Edward Abbey

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. - Fran Lebowitz

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. - Josh Billings

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. - Giorgio de Chirico

The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle. - Dada Bhagwan

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

The world is broken he said, how will you fix it? I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy. - Nikki Rowe

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving. - Audrey Celia

Talking to the Divine is possible when you have your knowledge, thoughts, mind & body in line, remembering God with every breath. In Sufism, it is called ‘Sama’. But in reality, it should be called ‘Self realization’, I think. - Taranpreet Singh

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy. - Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

You can hurt some of the people some of the time, you never can hurt all the people all the time but you can love all the people most of the time. - Debasish Mridha

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. - James M. Barrie

Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. - Hugh Macleod

Love not for a reason but as if it is your ultimate purpose and passion. - Debasish Mridha

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world. - Dada Bhagwan

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. - Guy de Maupassant

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess - Mohammad Azeem

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell. - Donna Lynn Hope

My first crush use to think I hate her cuz never find time to chat with her , is only Hi and hellow that all , but not knowing that deep down in my soul and heart she is the first and last I want , but hey is fine now , she end up with some fox who loves her , - Sikhwetha maanda

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first. - Hong Mei

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. - Lin-Manuel Miranda

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __ - Mary Stolz

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking! - Marie Abanga

I don't always believe in God, but, I believe something is amiss. - Angel M.B. Chadwick

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening. - Bill Clinton

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age. - Brian Greene

There are two types of people: those who just live their lives, and those who have nothing better to do but watch and talk about the first type. - Ali B. Moe

Live in the moment but just be mindful that you are working towards something. - Eric Zaccone

There's a lot going on in Marquis' book, as the author smartly builds off a solid premise...A fresh concept and protagonist that breathe life into a conventional but exciting actioner."-- - Kirkus Reviews

Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back. - Kamand Kojouri

I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composureA boy trapped in a war, forced to be a soliderThe weight of the world just put on top of my shouldersBut if there's one thing I know for sureIt's that my mind has had its exposureAnd my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure - Tommy Tran

You have two eyes,but the discerning have three.You have two ears,but the wise have four.You have two hands,but the enlightened have five. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us. - Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other. - Genesis Quihuis

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable. - Michael McDowell

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery. - Howard Thurman

It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it. - Donna Tartt

In scientific discovery, it’s not the subject or object reveals the information to the scientist, but the awareness field of his own mind, reveals the details, at the time of deep focus on the subject or object. - Roshan Sharma

The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We all have faced fearful times. But it is better to live with faith than fear. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right. - Debasish Mridha

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. - John Stuart Mill

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. - Mother Teresa

Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test. - Thomas Christopher Greene

Will you miss him Holly? he asked suddenly. [...] No, she said. I will not miss him. But her eyes told the real story. - Eoin Colfer

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert

It's a time for not showing elation but doing introspection for a person who is being often liked by many or most people in his/her circle because almost everyone likes normally someone who only poses no threat to their position in a life full of cut-throat competition. - Anuj Somany

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them. - Luis Marques

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. - ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is the heart of life. Flowers have fear of being withered while Thorns have not fear of being withered. - M.K. Bhutta

I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself. - Nutan Bajracharya

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep. - Sneha Abraham

But then he combs his fingers through my hair, starting at the base of my neck, and I shiver with uncontrollable, unexpected pleasure. - Primula Bond

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."—from "Phantom's Veil - Richelle E. Goodrich

Terkadang bukan karena hidup hanya sekali dan 'live to the fullest' tapi jujur atau tidak pada kehidupan tersebut. - Innasafa

Integrity should not be an act, but a habit. - Ron Akers

Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage. - Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. - Wilson Mizner

Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity. - Mohith Agadi

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble - Toni Sorenson

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you! - C. JoyBell C.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. - Nolan Bushnell

Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect. - Balroop Singh

Forgiveness can be viewed as love, But love doesn't always guarantee forgiveness. - Gisclerc Morisset

Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety. - Philip Roscoe

I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed - Gary Lutz

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? - Don Marquis

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Some people will leave you soon no matter how, but it's not the ending of your story, it's just the ending of their role in your story. cause life goes on, and you should just expect damage from others. - Marouane LAASSAFAR

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. - Neil Gaiman

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency. - S. Kelley Harrell

Some say sky is the limit but I say your assignment is the limit - Dr Lloyd Magangeni

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

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. - Robinson Jeffers

A gentleman has certainly a class,but he is most probably not one who is posting own picture online relentlessly for likes votes and praising oneself only by standing in front of mirror or glass. - Anuj Somany

You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation. - Debasish Mridha

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. - Terry Pratchett

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out. - Robin Wells

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

When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists. - Amit Abraham

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility. - Bryant McGill

People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world. - Nana Awere Damoah

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator. - Hilary Swank

‎"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing." Happy birthday to (1899-1988)! - Louise Nevelson

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. - William S. Burroughs

No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simple form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal

Water has no hands,but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders,but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes,but finds its way around the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle - Bruce Wayne Sullivan

I have my good parts.I have my bad parts.But the broken ones?They are the best. - Vanshika Dhyani

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing. - N.M. Silber

Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare. - Debasish Mridha

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck! - Robert Graves

Accept love with love, but never forget to forgive hate with love. - Debasish Mridha

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT? - Akira Kurosawa

In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw his eyes. He was not daunted in the least. - V.S. Carnes

Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped - Anubhav Mishra

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? - William Shakespeare

Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility. - Amit Kalantri

You don’t create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about. - Roshan Sharma

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give. - Mary Wollstonecraft

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. - Milan Kundera

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. - Jay Samit

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. - Francis Chan

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. - Joan Borysenko

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the grey hair. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

And I have seen people on Facebook with their real names and own pictures but fake personalities - Jasmine Kiyani

A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized. - Todd Stocker

The relationship btw time and money is nt b'cuz time is money but because u must spend both wisely....## - DonRichie

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted. - Donna Lynn Hope

If a person listens routinely to the sermon but doesn’t show the commensurate good change in own daily action, then the fact is s/he is actually not hearing anything of the spiritual master’s oration. - Anuj Somany

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know. - Shannon L. Alder

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting. - Paul Monette

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's not proof of it. - Duke Ellington

But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman. - Phar West Nagle

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it. - Diarian Hersi

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me. - E'yen A. Gardner

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow.... - Jars of Clay

Compared to art, all other professions are but chores. - T.L. Rese

learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world. - Sarah Enchanted

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. - Jane Austen

But do not fall only for what can be seen,there is more than just beauty and pleasure... - Carol Padilla

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't? - Elizabeth Bishop

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki - Natsuki Takaya

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it. - Christopher Earle

Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent. - Tom Panaggio

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné

Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us. - Ricky Maye

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life. - Jennifer DeLucy

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me - Amit Abraham

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. - Francis Quarles

What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2... But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich! - Deyth Banger

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. - Charles M. Schulz

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. - Baruch Spinoza

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness - Pope Benedict XVI

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. - Johnny Depp

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign - José de Alencar

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers. - Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde

So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted. - Beni Johnson

When you are in the middle of a storm cloud it's hard to think outside of it, but the only way out of the storm is to ride through it and things will be a lot clearer on the other side - Jodi Ann Bickley

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. - Hiroko Sakai

A person who loves only oneself attracts many towards him/her because the parity of people nature works in tandem; but one who stands unselfish in life distracts many and so he remains without any. - Anuj Somany

Never be afraid of darkness, it is only temporary. Have hope, have the courage, be cautious, walk and continue your journey. Life is not always a fairy tale but like a rolling stone we need to go up and down until it stop. - Glazl Bugaoan

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

There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.'' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts and impulses how can we deny the very things that make us human.'' If change implies transformation wouldn't that mean we have no impulses and instincts. - Testy McTesterson

That one person you are is you...its hurts but try love maybe it will get you through - Sabrina Salas

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. - Marilyn Manson

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You can Save Time with Writing but you can Save a Life by Reading. - Divya Chawla

Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done! - Praveen Chenna

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. - Voltaire

There comes a moment in life when you say to yourself – enough. This is ENOUGH! Then – you take a walk with your destiny. To change. To fulfill your purpose. We all have it. But are you willing to take that first step? - Besa Kosova

Have you ever met someone for the first time but feel like you've known them all your life, a sense of déjàvu and synchronicity wrapped into one little motherf*cking mystery to untangle the way our lives are ruled by logic. I have and my life has never been the same since. - Nikki Rowe

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech. - Michael Bassey Johnson

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Be sure to bend but never break - Nikki Rowe

Dreaming is good but implementation is success - Paballo Seipei

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream. - Debasish Mridha

You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Some people seem like a bright light during your darkest moment... a beautiful refuge... but it's a trap... there is only more pain there. Now that I think about it... I imagine that's what bugs feel like when they fly into the zapper. - Steve Maraboli

The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams - Janusz Korwin-Mikke

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal. - Pamela Morris

The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one’s behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three f’s: feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important c: contrivance. - Nicos Hadjicostis

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. - E. V. Lucas

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I delight in music and calm down, but there's no one here, I'm just alone and my sound which I love. - Łukasz Kozłowski

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen. Jenny blinked. I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead? - Maggie Osborne

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

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

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

There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. - Sir Winston Churchill

People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry! - C. JoyBell C.

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share. - Debasish Mridha

Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox. - M.B. Dallocchio

Di dunia ini tidak ada yang instan, semuanya butuh proses dan kerja keras - Anne ahira

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Rabbi Julius Gordon

Stand tall and face YOUR truth. Speak boldly and be confident in what you say. Don't just dream, but take the steps to get where you want to be. Stay motivated, determined, and focused because YOU are worth it! Giving up is NOT an option. Keep your eyes on what matters and what's truly important. - Stephanie Lahart

You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee. - Solange nicole

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

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

We must avoid possession," he said. "But, oh, let me kiss you. - Anaïs Nin

Let's take it as a "A" and "B" player. What if "A" decide to kill "B", "A" think that "B" is a evil guy... But "B" think that "A" is Evil so.... - Deyth Banger

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. - Will Rogers

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men... - Alina Radoi

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present. - John Steinbeck

God is constantly Creating, Experiencing, Witnessing, De-constructing, and Expanding. God is everything and everyone – that’s the realm where we don’t exist at all. That’s the realm where there’s none, but One - Manprit Kaur

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. - Paulo Coelho

Many people support, online or offline, a person not out of respect but because of the fact that if s/he does not remain in that high position, then they will also lose their chance of making livelihood. - Anuj Somany

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it. - Steve Maraboli

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil. - Octave Mirbeau

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher

I’ve learned that you cannot fulfill your destiny if you’re not being yourself; you can’t fulfill your destiny, trying to be somebody else. We are created unique not so that we can fit in, but so that we can stand out. - Jeanette Coron

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

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. - J. Frank Dobie

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. - L. M. Montgomery

Dreams show what a person takes to eternity—not a heaven but a chaos. Dreams provide a doorway that opens to the inner world of oneself. They show the intricate workings of the mind in ways that cannot be avoided or hidden. - Belsebuub

I love therapy. I don't get the taboo about seeking therapy at all. It's exactly like taking Buzzfeed quizzes. At the end of the day, we all want to know what cocktail we are. But it means so much more when it comes from a shrink. It's like 'Ooh, I really am Liquid Cocaine! - Judy Balan

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. - from the movie " A beautiful mind"

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. - Agnes Repplier

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself. - Brenda Perlin

But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it. - Sarah Addison Allen

Writer does nothing,But think deeply. - Shashank Rayal

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much. - Aqeel Rafique

Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. - Richard Sibbes

One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning. - Eraldo Banovac

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace. - Mark Ryan

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. - Cyril Ponnamperuma

This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. - Kurt Vonnegut

There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind. - Aileene Mhar Jabarani

Hate is not the opposite of love but indifference. Art is beautiful; the opposite of it is indifference, not ugliness. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life it is indifference, not death. - Ane Krstevska

But I quite like being afraid. It's like being in love. - Aurora Aksnes

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov

You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail. - Josh Billings

The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) - J.B.S. Haldane

Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow. - J.B. Cheaney

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls... - Hiroko Sakai

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it. - Jonathan Franzen

May be you are gone,but that doesn’t make me come back - Munia Khan

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. - Edith Wharton

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again. - Bill Clinton

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. - Hannah Arendt

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called...'friends. - José N. Harris

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

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. - Dan Quayle

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it. - Alexei Maxim Russell

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. - Bruce Lee

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. - Michael Jackson

Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried - Epiphana Lewis

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again. - Debasish Mridha

[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

An intangible substance, make up the world around us. But ironically, must still only foolishly trust, in what they can see or touch. - Sovereign Voice

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.

Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning and seep through the cracks of the broken, leaving behind a trail of crimson for all but one to see. - Raneem Kayyali

I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless. - Andy Biersack

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone. - Anthony Liccione

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. - Edgar Allan Poe

He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it. - Dominic Riccitello

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. - Jim Rohn

To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make? - Charles Fuller

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power. - Louise L. Hay

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline. - Paul Graham

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. - Benjamin Spock

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

After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar. - David Assael

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.

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. - Pat Conroy

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. - Alain de Botton

God has a plan for you (Jer. 29:11) and you will make it through this time of testing. Keep on believing and moving forward and you will see Him working out the details. God is never early or late but His timing is always perfect. You will see, I promise. - Tamara L. Chilver

It is painful those feelings of pain,but accept it with love to see the gain. - Debasish Mridha

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. - James Beard

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement. - Bertrand Russell

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness. - Shannon L. Alder

She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait. - Nikki Rowe

But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars. - Rudy Schwartz (Joe Newman)

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst. - Sam Killermann

Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved. - Debasish Mridha

We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero’s journey is the journey from strength to weakness. - John Green

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

I don’t know how much you have lost faith in people; but you can still find someone to trust. - M.F. Moonzajer

...in that rich earth a richer dust concealed.(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.) - Rupert Brooke

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. - Clarence Day Jr.

Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah - Abdurrahman Wahid

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. - Horace

There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze. - Darnell Lamont Walker

At times sun may burn bloody coppery on your skin…But have that charm and smile on your chinIt’s the tolerance and inner strength of your soul that winsIn this wheel of life, with time that spins - Dr Chitra Navada

It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it. - François de La Rochefoucauld

You stupid fool, you know very well it's not a short novel, but something longer...A piece of work you've got to buckle down to, that needs peace and concentration. Being able to wake up in the morning and lie in bed for a while. - Iván Mándy

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings. - Charles Boardman Hawes

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

Christmas is conceptualized with solidarity. That's nice! But let us at least be aware that it does not solve the problem. However, doing your part, it's a start. It does not have to be material help, start with a sincere and cozy hug in your loved ones.A gesture, worth more than thousand words! - 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão

They say leaders leads by instance but is idiotic when a leader guide in a wrong example so perfect. - Ben Bereng

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

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. - Kedar Joshi

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Be a good person but don’t waste time to prove it... - Manas Disoriya

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future. - A.D. Posey

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. - Antonin Artaud

The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart. - Robert Vanleeuwen

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. - Sigmund Freud

You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win. - Howard L. Salter

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it. - Anthon St. Maarten

It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away. - Jim Sheeler

Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes… - Chukwudifu Oputa

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics. - Raheel Farooq

Hope floats but effort propels. - Rob Liano

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion,Remember me,I am here … - Rixa White

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings. - David Guterson

Your greatest contribution in this world is not what you have but who you are. - Debasish Mridha

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. - Eric Hoffer

My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what love is about isn't it ~ cracking yourself open to the possibility that it could change your life. - Nikki Rowe

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

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to? - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea. - William Shakespeare

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. - Ralph Ellison

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone. - Nehali Lalwani

Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. - Richard Matheson

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. - Robert Graves

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so! - Israelmore Ayivor

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. - Johnny Depp

But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux. - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. - Jonathan Safran Foer

Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love. - N.A. Koziol

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again. - Markus Zusak

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. - E.M. Forster

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

No one can go back and correct his mistakes, but everyone can go forward and change their thoughts and perceptions. - Debasish Mridha

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world. - Stefan Zweig

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] - George Orwell

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. - Amit Kalantri

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book. - Kathy Griffin

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside. - Azereth Skivel

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." - Benjamin Franklin

I love humanity, but I hate people. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority. - Virginia Woolf

We only live once. Well we might get to live more than just once but we don't and wouldn't know a thing about it even if we do. Therefor we should live our life to the fullest in this life time - Tuul Bat

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family - Brigham Young

I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life. - Anaïs Nin

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction". - Tryon Edwards

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. - Rudyard Kipling

It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. - Dominic Riccitello

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

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness. - Charles Bukowski

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

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones. - Oscar Wilde

Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. - Mollie Marti

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. - Dejan Stojanovic

The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity. - Mr. Depravity

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep. - Mehmet Murat ildan

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. - José Ortega y Gasset

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. - Mother Teresa

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. - Dorothy Thompson

All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end. - James Franco

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. - Sir Winston Churchill

An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.

Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat. - Stephen Kiernan

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. - Arthur Conan Doyle

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. - Witness Lee

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are. - Colin E. Gunton

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. - Steve Maraboli

Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear. - Debasish Mridha

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. - Samuel Johnson

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm. - Henry Rollins

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Take my television. Take my computer. Take my cellphone. Take my music. But don't ever touch my books. - Kristen Darling

It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience. - Debasish Mridha

When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Don't talk about love, But speak out of love cause most of the liars are only perfect of talking about nothing but passion & don't talk about justice, But speak out of justice cause most of the oppressors are only perfect of talking about nothing but rightness. - Ibrahim Aslan

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. - Irvin D. Yalom

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. - Federico García Lorca

Sabrina: But you don’t believe in marriage.Linus: Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married. - Samuel Taylor

Born we are alone , we live in a crowd ----But actually alone !!!!! - Ibrahim Masoodi

I’ve been married but I’m not anymore. And I still believe in love. - Nick Saint Clair

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

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. - Richard Cecil

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. - John Dryden

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! - Vera Nazarian

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility. - Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao

The lie is a weak wepon you attack and pucn and kick the damage is weak. But the truth makes headshot, there is such people just by telling the truth you can devastate them! - Deyth Banger

Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian

The Internet"not food for thought, just chewing gum put out by people who know the vocabulary of thought but not it's syntax - Michael Hecht

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

There is no Love Failure but for the Broken Heart. - Avinash Mullangi

I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that. - Laura Marling

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. - Patrick Rothfuss

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life. - Paulo Coelho

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. - Ayn Rand

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared - Leila Aboulela

The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill. - Richard Wright

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Many want to take care their wallet but I think that is not so important if You are not Happy - Jan Jansen

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way. - Jay Perry

She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely. - Erica Bauermeister

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Your mind, it will trick you but your heart, it will not. - Nikki Rowe

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart - Leo Buscaglia

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. - Kahlil Gibran

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. - Ansel Adams

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers. - Marty Rubin

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun. - Amit Kalantri

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. - Alfred Adler

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield

Instead of looking at what's depressing, look at what's a blessing. - Kristen Butler

Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.Others may misunderstand my good intentions, judge my words or deeds, find fault,or blame what they truly do not understand.But God knows my heart. He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,to be all He created me to be. - Lori Nawyn

The moon is the same but the observers are different. - Debasish Mridha

Death is not the end of life but the beginning of eternal life. - Debasish Mridha

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths. - Dave Champion

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

Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of. - Gift Gugu Mona

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. - George Sand

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media] - Germany Kent

Only once in my lifetime , I truly believe I find someone who can turn my world around , I share dreams that I never achieved and goals that were achieved , but there was always a part of me that hoped for more , and so there was a part of me that was always a fool , - Sikhwetha maanda stanley

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t. - Lucy Corin

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change. - Leo Tolstoy

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. - Christopher Stocking

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress] - Jenna Streety

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. - Claude Bernard

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. - Shirley Chisholm

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. - Lauren Myracle

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview. - Amy Davidson

I've got to tell you that my vocation, my true calling, is serving others. Medicine is my avocation; it's part of how I answer my calling, but it's not all of it. I minister to bodies, but I also minister to hearts and souls. - Doc, Finding Normal

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none. - Yuval Noah Harari

Judge no one but love every one. - Debasish Mridha

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - Holy Bible - 2 Timothy 1:7

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

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation. - Israelmore Ayivor

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. - George Carlin

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen. - C. S. Lewis

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. - Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me - Karen Gibbs

Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness. - Auliq Ice

The darkness, the rage. One allows you to see the stars, the other gives you a false strength. But in the end both of which bring great torment. - Rodrigo Oliveski

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. - Leslie Knope

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. - Roy Orbison

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields. - Henry Ford

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box. - Scott Edward Shjefte

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends. - Bobby Darnell

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. - John C. Maxwell

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. - Donna Tartt

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. - Charlie Chaplin

All Pieces of puzzle set on right place, but it'll take time & dedication !! - Akash Patel

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. - Steve Maraboli

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! - Matthew 6:22-23, NIV

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it? - Harriett Beecher-Stowe

God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them .. - Akash B Chandran

A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal. - Steve Knox

A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential. - Sunday Adelaja

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say - Albert Camus

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. - Francois de Fenelon

They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words. - Michael Grant

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

If you give love , you get love.But there is a mistake in that sentence.If you give love , you may or may not get love.Now that's correct. - Akash B Chandran

The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference—by offeringliving proof. - John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Most are constantly asking for more, but with that comes more responsibility and most aren't willing to or able to handle that. Greatness comes at a cost and requires an investment. If you don't want the work.... you don't want the prize. - Randa Manning-Johnson

Seule compte la démarche. Car c'est elle qui dure et non le but qui n'est qu'une illusion du voyageur quand il marche de crête en crête comme si le but atteint avait un sens - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. - Andre Gide

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! - Christopher Marlowe

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. - Lilly Tomplin

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality. - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

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

Self-love is when you are genuinely happy not with the image you see in the mirror, but the person you see. - Kaiylah Muhammad

Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days. - G.M. Malliet

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity. - Nelson Mandela

Be courageous, but humble,passionate, but simple,have beliefs, but be flexible. - Debasish Mridha

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity. - Armistead Maupin

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side.

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. - Terry Pratchett

Lose your weightLose your mindBut don't lose heartIt's very expensive . - Amit Abraham

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. - Ambrose Bierce

Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make. - Vishwas Chavan

When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away." Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me.

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? - John Dryden

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever. - Jill Telford

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake. - Don Miguel Ruiz

Proverbs 21:15 NIV:When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. - Anonymous

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who thinks they have control over you. - Shannon L. Alder

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. - Henry David Thoreau

As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator." - Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment. - T.S. Eliot

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? - Lin Yutang

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

You may not be able to buy love with money, but if you spend your love, you may end up with a lot of money. - Debasish Mridha

faith is when music stops but you continue dancing. - Rudzani Ralph

Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold. - Jennifer S. Davis

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. - Jack Kerouac

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word - William H. Gass

We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be! - Debasish Mridha

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson

You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this. - C. JoyBell C.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

She is neither an explorer nor a mapmaker, but she can always find her way to my heart. - Anonymous

A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life. - Debasish Mridha

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? - J.G. Ballard

Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda"[modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida]("I willingly want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able")(found in a German travel journal c.1450) - Christine Wulff

The life is not limited to the external reality but the external life, has been formed for the human’s experience. The time you feel you are done with all the experiences of the external life, you have a choice to move inward. - Roshan Sharma

It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead - Nick Hornby

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. - Samuel Johnson

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are. - Jimmy Wales

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~ - Angelica Hopes

.."I let people walk away, the one who loved me, the one who cares for me, I push them to their limits but the saddest part is...I felt nothing, too much pain makes me numb.. - gracetamio

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. - Abigail Van Buren

He who binds himself to joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise. - William Blake

Brilliance some are born with it, but others create it over time. It lightens the foulest of hearts and pierces the darkest of nights to lead us on the right path of our future destinies. - Imania Margria

People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin! - C. JoyBell C.