Quotation Explorer - 'But'

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears. - Srinivas Shenoy

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. - Jonathan Swift

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Wortley Montagu

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first. - Ondrelique C. Ouellette

You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine. - Debasish Mridha

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. - W. Edwards Deming

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else. - Charles Bukowski

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. - Anurag Anand

We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves. - Julie-Anne

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both. - Kennedy Fraser

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life - Paulo Coelho

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

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! - Thomas Merton

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. - Elizabeth I

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

To fall in love is easy,but forgetting is required to be crazy. - Debasish Mridha

Most important, I hope you grow into a woman who loves herself. It is not an easy thing, self-love. It takes a lot of practice and time. But as a woman who is learning how to get there herself, I hope I can give that gift to you as you grow. - Jodie Sweetin

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take. - Evita Ochel

Some were made with skill and intelligenceSome with passion and charmBut they, they were raw, and strived to remain so… - Pearl Pandya

Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things. - Stephen Hawking

A flower never blooms in a hurry so live a life slowly but beautifully. - Debasish Mridha

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life. - Auliq Ice

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain. - Gary Hopkins

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

They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Take it easy, but take it. - Woody Guthrie

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions. - Masashi Kishimoto

Fear is not the absence of Faith but the Silence of Faith. - Evans Biya

Shepherds lift their heads,not to gaze at a new lightbut to hear angels. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film. - Deyth Banger

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides

Sometimes I just want to break free but the chains are too heavy. - Neelam Nasir

Wherever you go, go with love, but never leave hope behind. - Debasish Mridha

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work. - Amedeo Modigliani

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. - Max Lucado

The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly - Ankala V Subbarao

when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS - Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much. - Raaz Ojha

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

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. - Tom Bissell

For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire. - Christmas Humphreys

He sighed and bowed deeply. Sundari. I was standing here thinking nothing could be more beautiful than this sunset tonight, but I was mistaken. You standing here in the setting sun with your hair and skin aglow is almost more than a man can…fully appreciate. - Colleen Houck

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy - Tupac Shakur

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing. - Robert Jordan

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Yes, our company is at risk because we cede control to the users, but that's how we do our business. If the community decides to kill the business, maybe it deserves to die. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff

I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble. - Raymond Joseph Teller

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. - Tim O'Reilly

A Ship in Harbor Is Safe, But that Is Not What Ships Are Built For-John A. Shedd - John Shedd

world is small to hate but very big to love - shivank sagar

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility - Jane Austen

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

Look here, said Will. When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out. - John Steinbeck

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers

The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue? - Court Young

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 may not know who you are, where you are, or where you will be after I have gone, but I still love you. I came to this world to serve all of you. - Debasish Mridha

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers - John Green

He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth. - Joey W. Hill

MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. _The Biographical Alphabet_ - Ambrose Bierce

Yeah, but if you r heart isn't in it, you need to be where your heart is. - Danny Wallace

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior. - David W. Earle

Love is everything. Nothing else but love can define the destiny of humanity. - Debasish Mridha

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why. - Daniel Marques

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

Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. - Misaki Mei - Yukito Ayatsuji

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

Nothing is as precious as your love. Nothing can buy it, but with it, you bought me so many times. - Debasish Mridha

Politics is largely a matter of heart. - R. A. Butler

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess. - Craig Groeschel

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever. - Rachel Hawkins

Failure is a mindset, not a circumstance. I let my experiences strengthen me. You think I fell on my face, but I’m down here doing pushups. - Steve Maraboli

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

You can catch flies with honey, but you catch more honeys bein fly - Keegan 'Straight Barz' Large

One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change - Prakhar Srivastav

The Leader who grows his team not just in numbers but by nurturing the roots of their success,has planted a field of dreams - Bluenscottish

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck

Lies can live for thousands of years and deceitful but truth will always penetrate to the darkness of surfaces and show the light to the merciful ones and evils one shall be ashamed and flee away like bees. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep – - Aldous Huxley

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. - David Sedaris

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. - Timothy J. Keller

Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy. - Deyth Banger

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. - William Saroyan

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive. - Amy Chua

Your purpose of life is not to find a job, but to find what you love and do it with all your heart. - Debasish Mridha

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break - Billy Joel

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today. - Sara Sheridan

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. - Edna Buchanan

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market. - Elizabeth Aston

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer. - William Zinsser

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes. - Ubaldina M. Gibbs

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. - Jim Butcher

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better. - Ursula A. Ciller

Happiness is always replacing by loneliness.even you do everything to be Happy but there are so many people around that some of them will cheer you and some of them makes you dawn. - O.v Grace

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

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. - Thomas Fuller

Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit - John Keats

But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes. - Julie Anne Long

It meant different things to different people, but somehow it meant them all intensely. Shostakovich's words just confuse the issue. His symphony itself is what remains. Listen to it. It is your symphony to write with him. - M.T. Anderson

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

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. - George Orwell

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands. - Christopher Morris

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby. - Mary Tyler Moore

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen

To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives. - Ron Baratono

So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. "I hope we're still okay."I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess. - Chloe Neill

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

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing. - Caroline Lucas

To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater - G.S. Alag

Who are you to judge the life i livei know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.but before you start pointing fingersmake sure your hands are clean. - Jimi Hendrix

If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands. - Chrostoph Morris

Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. - Mario Puzo

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present. - Barbara Barrington Jones

As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. - Sir Joshua Reynolds

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. - C.S. Lewis

The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. - Bridges McCall

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

But did thee feel the earth move? - Ernest Hemingway

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstien

You solve a problem not by eliminating the problem but by changing the perception and awareness of the problem. - Debasish Mridha

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same. - Nikki Rowe

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. - Brian Tracy

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. - Zora Neale Hurston

They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet. - William Alexander Percy

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice. - Shannon L. Alder

It matters not what my brain knows, but what my heart feels. - Raneem Kayyali

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. - Tennessee Williams

This is not the begning but not the end.So you have time to become what u want.... - Praveen Kumar

I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance. - Jane Austen

Knowledge is the Best Weapon, Experience is the Best Teacher,Respect is the Best Admirer, But Life Is the Best Answer - Look Im A Cat

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. - George Washington

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. - Richard Brookhiser

Not everything you believe that you can achieve, can be achieved but that won't stop you from trying. - Auliq Ice

There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler

I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. - Louis Pasteur

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega") - Erik Pevernagie

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it - Kamila Shamsie

Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together. There will come a day when the two of us will join together to do great things. But until then, you must wait and endure any hardship and danger that may come your way. - Auliq Ice

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. - John Locke

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. - Overstreet

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion. - George Gabriel Stokes

Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same. - Mykyta Isagulov

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

You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life. - Debasish Mridha

That door had a lot to say, people entered and people left but never the same! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

But it bothers you. It pisse you off that I'm not crippled with debt or saddled with some moody bitch. Instead, you PR your lives and act like I'm supposed to ency you..... - Adam Neville

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767) - Voltaire

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously. - Catherine de Hueck Doherty

A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing. - Kemi Sogunle

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. - Oscar Wilde

The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. - Faraaz Kazi

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception. - Ken Poirot

A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision. - Debasish Mridha

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. - Margaret Cho

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you. - Debasish Mridha

Sometime you will not feel proud, even you have conquered a country, but some time you will feel proud only standing beside your flag. - M.Rishad Sakhi

Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too. - Dave Guerrero

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

The best place to find God is not in the temple, but your heart, where kindness and love reside. - Debasish Mridha

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers. - Jacques Lacan

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. - Raymond Chandler

The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love. - Debasish Mridha

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is priceless,but the righteous give it for free.Hate is cheap,but the wicked purchase it at high prices. - Matshona Dhliwayo

This funny thing we call love, how simple it may seem. To say it is sometimes enough but to feel it is a dream. - Raneem Kayyali

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds... - Arthur Miller

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

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. - Carl Jung

Millions say the apple fell but Newton was the only one to ask why. - Bernard M. Baruch

Dreams come true for sure...thats it, no other facts or philosophy...they may take a life time of yrs or somebody else but they are there in your heart or in your mind to change into reality. - Saniya

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship. - Cristina Marrero

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. - Socrates

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

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh

No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are. - Confucius

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body... - Kate Mullane Robertson

I choose because I can.. I have options in life and the ability to choose, but that choice determines my future, the next. However I decide...it's my choice. - Chantel Smith

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it". - Vivian Amis

Exercising the Body is great, But exercising the Mind is the GREATEST. - Auliq-Ice

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. - René Descartes

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying. - Dejan Stojanovic

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers. - Brian A. McBride

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die. - Kayko Tamaki

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes

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

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work - Betty Poluk

A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. - Auliq Ice

How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out. - Destiny Booze

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. - Denis Diderot

An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress - W.B. Yeats

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. - John Burdett

Life for dreamers may not be easy, but it beats drifting. You never know where you'll end up drifting, maybe someplace good, maybe not." - L. R. W. Lee - L.R.W. Lee

Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does. - R.A.Delmonico

Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest. - Sanjo Jendayi

People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality. - Lionel Suggs

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't. - Neil Gaiman

Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. - Shannon L. Alder

It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish. - Carol Green

Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle. - Charlotte Brontë

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare! - Manuela George-Izunwa

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. - Henry David Thoreau

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

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. - Theodore Roosevelt

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Once can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think. - Robert A. Heinlein

Krishna,Christ, Allah we are one but you idiot humans divided me - Anonymous

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. - Hayao Miyazaki

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. - Robert F. Kennedy

I believe, he said gently, we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else’s. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together. - Mary Balogh

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer. - Matt Groening

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

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever. - Gordon Korman

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

Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's children, driven out of paradise, but still cherishing a deep desire for the lost paradise. - M. Basilea Schlink

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. - Abraham Lincoln

You are blessed today not because God loves you most but, God just want to bless someone through you. so just be careful you might probably be holding onto someones blessings. Remember you are just servant/messenger of God. - wisdom kavi

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

Taking the reading and book one of the two hours of my time, but he advised me years! - Ahmed A. Ateya

They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come - Michael Biondi

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. - Oscar Wilde

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us? - J.K. Rowling

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know. - Joanna Field

Liars corrupt knowledge,and fools pervert wisdom,but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth. - Matshona Dhliwayo

But a cock does not enter a hen… it enters a…meow-meow! - Faraaz Kazi

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through. - Dominic Riccitello

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. - Jane Goodall

Life is uncertain.Today you get a rose.Tomorrow you feel the thorns.But the end result is red, always!! - Shillpi S Banerrji

You did not come to this world for an experiment but for an assignment written on the palm of your hand. Discover yours ! - Osunsakin Adewale

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them. - C. J. Milbrandt

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet! - Mehmet Murat ildan

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests - Mizan Chaudhury

I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. - Alexander Pope

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. - Martin Luther King, jr.

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

As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored. - Amit Kalantri

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

"Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one- armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle." - P. G. Wodehouse

If you knew you were going to lose your memorybut you could choose five things you’d never forget, what would they be—a certain face, a taste, a scent,a touch; how deepin this, the middle of your life? - Kristen Henderson

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything - Debasish Mridha

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. - Lois McMaster Bujold

People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams. - Amit Kalantri

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain. - Graham Greene

What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight. - Robert Prisig

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction... - Winston Graham

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows - Stephen King

I don't know what I know, but definitely know what I know'what I know, i don't know...what I don't know, I know - Umaru Mhd

It's bizarre! But it is the way the world is. - Faizan Ahmad Zargar

If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We believe that beautiful people must have equally beautiful personalities. But what is amazing is how complete is this delusion! - Avijeet Das

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. - William Faulkner

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again! - Israelmore Ayivor

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise. - Shannon L. Alder

Jamin knew that by morning, when he was done paying the girl in exchange for her slipping out without causing a fuss, he would be flat broke. But that did not matter. It was money well spent. - Stanley Gazemba (Bahati Books)

Your ears hear much,but your heart hears more.Your eyes see much,but your mind sees more.Your toungue says much,but your soul says more.Your feet travel much,but your imagination travels more.Your hands do much,but your mind does more. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The truth may make you bitter; but it must make you better. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility. - Derrick Jensen

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? - Grace Kelly

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them. - John F. Kennedy

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism! - Matt Groening

Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew. - Jason Micheal Ratliff

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply. - Os Guinness

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

I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas. - John Boyne

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. - Dag Hammarskjöld

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the steward of life's continutity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to to it, but here we are. - Stephen Jay Gould

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. - John Gay

I guess it’s also not a good thing when you start relating yourself to a late nineteenth century nut bag who shot himself, but hey, you’ve got to relate to something if you ever want to feel relevant. - Molli Fields

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. - Janet Evanovich

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated? - Whoopi Goldberg

A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes life knocks you down, but all you need to do is to get up because happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome. - Ane Krstevska

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere. - Thomas Piketty

Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seemAbrupt, untrained, competing with no lieOur fathers shouted once. - W.H. Auden

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit! - Anthony Liccione

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept. - Shannon L. Alder

So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears. - Marcel Proust

The beauty of the cross and our crucified Lord cannot be easily fathomed by human mind or by barely reading scriptures in bits, but by careful reading of entire scripture in the spirit which will in turn engulf one with wisdom n love. - Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author in law. (B.Com,LLB-goldmedalist, LLM-GoldM

But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious. - Haruki Murakami

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. - Gustave Flaubert

People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you. - Debasish Mridha

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. - Mary Karr

If you're with someone, but you're constantly worried about what they think of you, you're with the wrong person. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth. - Geoffrey Wood

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

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. - Jessica Mitford

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again. - Michelle M. Pillow

Age doesn't count, but sense - Eli Coffie

Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated. - Bradley B. Dalina

The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving. - Sunday Adelaja

Always look up to the better. They tell you where to go but never look down upon inferior because you know, you were once there. - Prashant Balan

Love is like electricity, you can’t see it, but it can enlighten you or it can burn you. - Debasish Mridha

Sometimes Dreams take time to come true, But it hurts when it comes true and you are not with that person with who you dreamed about it - Paul karan

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

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

A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand. - Faith Brashear

But the basic structure of capitalism, in which a small number own most of the productive assets, guarantees that the vast majority of people will (at best) spend their lives earning wages, but never profits. - Michael A. McCarthy, ABC's of Socialism

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself. - Daniel Kehlmann

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it. - Aldous Huxley

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. - Alfred Hitchcock

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed. - Jodi Picoult

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw

You will never change a prospective customer’s mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect. - Chris Murray

Now get going. You'll find a way of calm through.""And you, Mael?""I'll drop in later. I've things for you to do, Withal. But for now," he faced inland, "I'm going to beat a god senseless. - Steven Erikson

Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars - Andrew Fisher

I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs. - Unarine Ramaru

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world; but we haven’t found wealth on the road. - M.F. Moonzajer

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. - John Ruskin

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time. - Mark Twain

I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. - Zack W. Van

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young. - Compton Gage

And if you don't let a boy become a man, it's no one's fault but your own when you're still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren. - Brian McGreevy

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. - Neale Donald Walsch

So celebrate what you're accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death. - Fernando González y Lozano

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company. - Jane Goodall

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields - Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on its wings of fortune. - R.P. Falconer

It's okay to dream, but remember to plan when you wake up. - G.C. Julien

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. - Aaron Copland

Even the strongest hearts can be fragile. It takes only seconds to hurt someone. But sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. Cherish the hearts that love you. - Kiran Shaikh

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment. - David Steindl-Rast

Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality. - Debasish Mridha

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion. - Sameh Elsayed

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed. - Ayn Rand

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends. - Shannon Celebi

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee... - Helen Keller

It may stink like me, but that's what makes it so collectible!

I was Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. - Rick Riordan

Your heart plays a song like a broken music box, but nothing ever sounded quite so beautiful to me. Together, in the dance of wounded-wing swans we’ll rise above the ruins, melting into the golden light. - John Mark Green

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. - Peter De Vries

You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time. - Mimi Shannon

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe. - Stephen Richards

You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't,it just makes them dead. - Joe Walker

you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play. - Rosemary Rawlins

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable. - Virginia Woolf

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. - Plato

Women can do it all but that doesn’t mean they should have to. - Toni Sorenson

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. - Naomi Wolf

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. - Wilferd Peterson

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. - Sir Philip Sidney

But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

An acorn does not see itself as a seed, but as an oak tree. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify. - Roshan Sharma

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. - Lu Xun

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life. - Joan D. Chittister

If you are sad don't try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach. - Ben Bereng

Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us. - Debasish Mridha

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. - T.S. Eliot

You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed. - Dinos Christianopoulos

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that? - Artemus Withers

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. - Bible

The beauty is not in a person's face but how much s/he can face the life's challenges and remain true to oneself in years and days. - Anuj Somany

Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them. - Shannon L. Alder

Find the problems—not to complain—but to solve. - Debasish Mridha

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy - Kahlil Gibran

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. - Amit Abraham

There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?) - Deyth Banger

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life. - Elizabeth Blackwell

PAY PEANUTS & GET MONKEYS’ is a correct thought all the way, but what they have to say about a lot those who pay cashew nuts to one who acts like nuts and makes others work only like flunkeys. - Anuj Somany

As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually. - Kira Stone

I dont wanna see you again. B'coz U'r the one left me here... but, what to do... You are always just crossing... I cant love you, as u left me.. same time I cant hate you... b'coz.. one day you have to take me out from here..!! - Arafath Shanas

Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical. - Lois Mowday Rabey

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art - Leonardo da Vinci

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. - George Macaulay Trevelyan

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

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail - Dave Matthews Band

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

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

Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now - Carrie Newcomer

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. - Mother Teresa

I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction. - John F. Kennedy

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? - Phyllis Diller

The size of the handkerchief itself shows who weeps more between the men and the women, but the men don't show their big tears while the women make a big show off. - Anuj Somany

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

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

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. - G. K. Chesterton

Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. - Washington Irving

The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ. - Augustine of Hippo

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said - Gordon Lindsay

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years - Rei Anthony Albon

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. - Confucius

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit of happiness during current times we reverse the mantra and ignorantly fly away from it. - Hiyamedia

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Tennyson

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I. - Tegan Quin

I am a knight riding from tower to tower seeking a princess to rescue but all the dragons are slain, the towers are empty and the princesses taken. - Pieter Niemand

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

We may be invisible to the powers that be but we are many and our invisibility makes us stealthy like ninjas. We can sneak up on the corrupt society and TAKE BACK what they took away - Levon Peter Poe

We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts. - Ufuoma Apoki

Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules - Sunday Adelaja

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past! - Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close - Johnathan Jena

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all. - M.F. Moonzajer

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

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes. - Cody Simpson

Light makes light even brighter, but does not cancel it. - Steven Chopade

Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes. - Francesca Lia Block

If seen from the outside, our lives are like leaves from the trees that seem to just feel the blows of the wind outside. But they have their life of their own so long as they are attached to the tree. An eye of introspection can make miracles happen for each one of us. - Taranpreet Singh

When thinking about what to do next with your life, don’t ask yourself what you would succeed at, but what you would most enjoy failing at. - Clifford Cohen

Your hope is not in a sun rise, but in a Son risen! - Paul Guilda

Time is a strange phenomenon that understands the physics of our world, but never the chemistry of it - Vishwanath S J

Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great. - Sira Masetti

A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely; but be sure you get to where you are going with your words. - Israelmore Ayivor

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

Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods... - Kevin Hearne

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. - Andre Dubus

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well. - Jane Austen

To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment - Quetzal

saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life. - Annoymous

But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it. - Cassandra Clare

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

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

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious - Harry Toh Jun Shen

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.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - John Andrew Holmes

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation. - Norman O. Brown

In order to move forward, you will have to stumble along the way, but every falter in your stride just makes your next step even stronger. - Lindsay Chamberlin

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them. - Marty Rubin

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. - Sarah Dessen

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved. - Todd Stocker

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one. - Amen Muffler

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie. - Amah Lambert

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. - Sir Richard Francis Burton

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. - Christopher Reeve

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. - Ayn Rand

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. - Mark Twain

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. - Plutarch

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] - David Foster Wallace

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

Self-acceptance can be daunting at first, but it is made easier with the understanding that self-acceptance is not hinged on perfection. Self-acceptance is the starting point. - Akiroq Brost

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

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. - Eddie Cantor

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow. - George R.R. Martin

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. - George Du Maurier

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - Joel Hawes

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long. - Ogden Nash

Im most likely to succeed at failing but the point is your succeeding. - Justise Bailey

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others. - Jonathan Kieran

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time. - Sara Sheridan

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. - Georg Baselitz

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning. - Aniruddha Sastikar

You had the whole world to reduce it to the ashes and surrender it to the wind but the tragedy is;You chose the one, you chose. - Siddharth Bhatnagar

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality. - Amit Kalantri

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. - Aldous Huxley

You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! But there’s another part of me that asks what if? What if you’re not supposed to be with Ren? What if you were supposed to be the answer to my prayers? Not his! - Colleen Houck

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

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.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. - William Shakespeare

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?) - Davis Grubb

Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild. - Nikki Rowe

Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security. - Margaret Jensen

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. - Dave Brenner

Never defend yourself, but define yourself with your imagination and actions. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

Depression is a prison. For some it is easy and short, for others it is difficult and long. For some the days go by easier than most and for others the days are eternity. But it is your choice to try and escape. - C. Shultz

Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.p 97 - Michael Perry

Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine. - Jasmine Warga

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. - William Gurnall

Not only didI love her,but I could tellthe universe lovedher, too.More than others.She was different.After all; I wouldbe a fool not tonotice the way thesunshine played withher hair. - Christopher Poindexter

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything. - Tony Samara

Any person that has LEARNED the use of his subconscious powers is in HEAVEN already, But any person that has UNLEARNED the use of his subconscious powers is already in HADES. - Auliq-Ice

I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day. - Nikki Rowe

Why bad people live in heaven??If there is heaven so do and hell exist??but why bad are heaven and good also??So you have done here something bad and you greeting saying "Bravo..., Bravo... well made!" - WTF??? - Deyth Banger

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. - Marty Rubin

Private Benjamin lives next door but one to Bob Cryer from The Bill. I once saw him crouching down behind a sycamore tree and using his nose as an Allen Key to release a starving rat. - St John Morris

For life, it doesn’t matter how much you earn and how you hold your different relationships, but what’s important for life is, what kind of progress, you have achieved from inside, while going through different aspects of life. - Roshan Sharma

When I say that we are spiritual beings that means that every human being has a universal consciousness. That universal awareness is our spirit, but we have different mindsets. Mind is a creation of society. - Debasish Mridha

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

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear. - Debasish Mridha

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Moments come & go, but special moments last a lifetime.Make them count! - Mark Hewer

But that was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie. - Kathy Parks

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. - Emma Goldman

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls." Czechoslovakian foreign minister to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938. - Jan Masaryk

Ironically, girls who don't think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families. - Farahad Zama

You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat- catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.

Even you Spent a lots of time to find your lovers but you doesn't know that he is close by you and ready to touching you. - Allulaby

Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great. - Gugu Mona

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important. - John Sutherland

The rather difficult antagonists towards the Faith consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack Spiritual understanding. - Criss Jami

Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight! - Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013 - Green Day

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at. - A.D. Posey

I have made You the companion of my heart.But my body is available to those who desire its company,And my body is friendly toward its guest,But the Beloved of my heart is the guest of my soul. - Rabia Al-Adawiyya

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it. - Harper Lee

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

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. - George Bernard Shaw

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) - C.S. Lewis

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot. - Lucia Berlin

No Animal is as long as longest Tree, No Tree is as high as highest Mountain, No Mountain is as big as the Sky,No Sky is as large as the Space,No Space is as big as the Universe, Who know's the list beyond..But one thing is certain, there is always a next level which exists! - JKJaiswal

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

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work. - Criss Jami

It could be my eyes, but my eyes have more sparks than those coffees. - Dishika Zaman Tasnim

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances. - Lloyd Alexander

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. - Simon Sinek

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. - Vincent Van Gogh

All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told.Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold - Gilded tombs do worms infold;Had you been as wise as bold,Young in limbs, in judgement old,Your answer had not been inscrolled - Fare you well; your suit is cold. - William Skakespeare

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will. - Debasish Mridha

Brilliance occurs, not when everyone is looking at you, but when they turn their heads.

Our life is nothing but expression of our deepest thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

from 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what will happened. - Hamzatribah

But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there. - Nancy Oliver

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver - Mr. Pessimist

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ― , Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes. - Chuck Palahniuk

You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential. - Joel T. McGrath

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

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. - Fred Hampton

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Winston S. Churchill

The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven. - Alisa Hope Wagner

We often what to be a success but we don’t know why. - Debasish Mridha

I realised that life had changed us both. But somehow, instead of heading into the same direction, we were rapidly diverging from a common point, until the link between us was fast fading away. - Jane Finn

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. - George MacDonald

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see. - Betsy Hearne

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler

"Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous. - Siddhartha Choudhary

We meet lots of people in a lifetime and we lose some of them over a period of time . But every person who comes in lives has a purpose to serve.. NO MEETING IS AN ACCIDENT, EVERY PERSON THAT WE MEET PLAYS A ROLE IN OUR LIVES, WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT. - Raj Kiran Atagaraha

You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can't stay rich if you are poor minded. - Rafaa Khiari

I love the criminal, but not the crime they have committed. - Debasish Mridha

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. - Jeanette Winterson

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras

Haters, like parrots, talk much but cannot fly. Dreamers, like eagles, say nothing but conquer the skies. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don't have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don't have a head.

The mystery that surrounded how their souls were tied, would certainly make a great read in decades to come, but for the time being though, they had to surrender and observe, as destiny played chess with their lives, eager to prevent them from running away from it. - Pertunia Lehoka

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

I didn’t know what to spend it on, ’cause my mum said she didn’t want me to buy her nothing. So I was going to buy Larry something, but he said I should spend it on something I always wanted. So I bought a cat. - J.L. Merrow

The language of love is not words but feelings. - Debasish Mridha

Hope may spring eternal in the human breast but it only materializes through action. - Marty Rubin

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. - Anonymous

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane! - Lloyd C. Douglas

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulnessOf dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight)At last they came, Their full communion And consummation,Their complete sphere,Was stillness for her,Silence for him. - Theodore Spencer

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". - William Golding

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive. - Black Swan Darren Aronofsky

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.