Quotation Explorer - 'But'

Everyone has a heart, but not everyone listens to another's - Hamza Aslam

I am staring into eyes so dark and compelling that I feel as if I could easily lose myself within them. He moves me slightly away from his body but doesn't let go. Energy, just like in the forest a few nights ago, ebbs and flows betwen us. - Jennifer Sucevic

Is there a force that holds people together? Sure... But you can only tell so when it is growing weaker - Devjeet Chawdhary

You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin

To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else. - André Gide

See, an ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after an ugly person gets at least cab-fare. - Harvey Firestein

The situation come back again but you will not act like before again. - Saily Badsha

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back. - Shannon L. Alder

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. - G. K. Chesterton

You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it. - Bradley B. Dalina

I don’t believe in miracles, but my life is an amazing example of a miracle. - Debasish Mridha

The Days tried to put inside me " weakness ..." .. But my soul will always beat " strength". - Jad Alhadad

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. - Anthony Burgess

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

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man. - John W. Campbell Jr.

No if's, but's or maybe's. It's all or nothing. You're either going to soar to new heights or crash and burn. Why live by any other philosophy. - M. James Airey

Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that? - Neila Rey

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. - Lord Byron

Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of. - Allan Amanyire

It’s traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That’s because there is virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound. - Mindy Kaling

Passion is not what gives you bliss or makes you happy 24/7, but what you're willing to suffer for, what you genuinely believe to be worth the sacrifice. - Justine Musk

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

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

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. - Mitch Hedberg

Strength can help you conquer many,wisdom can help you conquer numerous,but love can help you conquer all. - Matshona Dhliwayo

One size may fit all, but no footprint is the same. The right path for you may be a few steps to the left. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. - Polish Proverb

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul. - Michael Treanor

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy? - Roald Dahl

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me. - Gavriil Stiharul

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Remember, pain and misery are transient and ephemeral but love has the healing power,which is eternal. - Debasish Mridha

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up. - Peg Bracken

It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great,but it's difficult to get out of the river of love and forget. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship. - Martin Luther

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need. - Auliq-Ice

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music. - Jennifer Sodini

Hope is a curious thing, we should dare to hope, but hope must be tempered with truth. - R.A.Delmonico

Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are. - Dancolin Flamiano

They have their opinions, but we have the answers. - Anthony Liccione

The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give - Wrath James White

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me. - Oceangirlie14

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again. - Henrietta Newton Martin

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Esar

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

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself. - Shaykh Sa di

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic. - Marilyn Manson

In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours. - George Mercado

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being. - Daisaku Ikeda

There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights. - Mark Twain

Then, people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple- When in actuality, women ARE complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy . But because people are crazy, and women happen to be people. - Tavi Gevinson

the train is moving, so either jump in or jump out but i dare you to stand in front of it !! - Hisham Fawzi

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live. - Philip Henry

Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he’s dead. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

the loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools...It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction. - Meghan O'Rourke

My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth - Carl Henegan

I can say that what you know is just a nothing or let's say thats some kind a small of peace of paper. I also know like you... or probably little more but it's nothing compared to everything. - Deyth Banger

Good can exist without evil,but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal,the latter is temporal. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay - Sara Evans

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko - Natsuki Takaya

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated. - Steve Maraboli

Survival is running from death.Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try! - Fereidoon Yazdi

[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German. - George Carlin

I may not die for you, but I am sure I cannot live without u as well. - Raaz Ojha

I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose. - Erin Kelly Bartelma

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away. - Dalal Gebara

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. - Winston S. Churchill

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free - Jocelyn Murray

A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over - Ryan Leonard

I'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge. - Tanmaya Guru

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity. - Debasish Mridha

I love you," she told him, and he knew that this was true, and she knew that he believed her; but when she said it she saw the chain around his ankle, a length of links that let him wander, but not far. She did not see the chain around her own ankle, because love is blind. - Sonya Hartnett

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

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing - Michael Pollan

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation - Angela Y. Davis

We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question. - Maurice J. Dubois

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

You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there. life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love. - Yaqub khan

It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. - Henry David Thoreau

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

We can't always win the game; sometimes we lose; but that doesn't mean we should stop playing - Wrushank Sorte

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love - Clarence Jordan

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark.

The power of speech is not in words, but in the oration.

What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") – and not a God or gods. - David G. McAfee

The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it’s only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time. - Roshan Sharma

Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here. - Wil Wheaton

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do. - John Allen

But in case you can’t find her let me draw you a map with some crayons, you go past leave us the fuck alone, and turn right at fuck off, and oh look you're in slut country. - J.L. Beck

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken. - Mike Stackpole

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course. - David Skinner

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate. - Mohsin Hamid

He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between. - R.E. Butler

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - Sir Edmund Hillary

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. - Richard Dawkins

Success is a process, but a failure is a forward step for success. - Debasish Mridha

In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself - Goitsemang Mvula

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

Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. - William Shakespeare

Life is a gift, but living is a choice. - Debasish Mridha

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

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound) - Gertrude Stein

Thinking is opening a can of worms. The can is imaginary, but the worms are real. - Marty Rubin

The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem. - Steve Maraboli

Love should not have limits but you have to know that our actions have consequences. - Stephen D. Matthews

You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

There are thousands of ways to get rich, but there is only one way to reach the island of happiness. You need unconditional love to reach that island. - Debasish Mridha

Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amour.) - Charles de Leusse

Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana - Alejandro C. Estrada

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best. - Faraaz Kazi

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

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

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. - Doctor Who

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. - Euripides

Damien Hirst is acceptable because he's a brand. It's like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it's a massive waste of money but most will just shrug and move on - Qatar cultural official

Terkadang, memang rasa "pahit"lah yang kita butuhkan untuk menyadarkan kita, bahawa apa yang telah kita lakukan tak seharusnya kita lakukan - pandesatyaa

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue. - Shannon L. Alder

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study. - Oscar Wilde

It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano; but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea! - Mehmet Murat ildan

And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together. - S.J. Watson

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

Success lies not in our strength but our ability to do the right thing. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

But what would happen if I put on the ring? the boy asked.There is only one way to find out. - Jef Murray

You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul. - Gabriela Mistral

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. - Rita Rudner

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!! - Tom Wilson

you can find better than me, worst than me. But you'll never find someone exactly like me. - Angie

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple. - Debasish Mridha

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor. - John R.W. Stott

Patience is like ice cold water runing truth your veins, but our love will be immense - Alejandro Pérez

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. - Thucydides

Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her. - Olive Higgins Prouty

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

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

Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive. - Amit Kalantri

All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay. - Sam Zemurray

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all. - Primadonna Angela

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed. - Rosie O'Donnell

All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did. - Shel Silverstein

REMEMBERwhenever wherever you are.you're representing someone or somethingbut,in Grave you are your own Representative - Fahad Rashiq

Distance is but metrics, unmeasurable is the heart - Dimitri Debaene

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. - Gore Vidal

The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings. - Debasish Mridha

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold... - Colin Hay

It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around. - Louis L'Amour

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... - Maurice Sendak

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything. - Nora Roberts

According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon. - Chuck Lorre

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. - Marie Curie

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

Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else. - Amit Kalantri

Go where the situation takes you, but never forget where you came from, where you belong and the direction of where you entered in. - Auliq Ice

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

I thought I could fix almost anything, but then she was more than broken. - Tushar Chauhan

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. - Baruch Spinoza

Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth. - Laurie H. Hutzler

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God. - Shannon L. Alder

You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are part of you. And they will never go away. - Loki, Marvel's The Avengers

You may not have covered your set tracks but it’s never too late to start. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

I believe in the power of love, not because I can see it, but because I see the world through it. - Debasish Mridha

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz

I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing. - Unarine Ramaru

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

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

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. - Euripides

There is no hope for the hopeless but there is always some love for the loveless. - Santosh Kalwar

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time! - Arzum Uzun

We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs? - Paul Gitwaza

It may be difficult, but thru sorrow, it’s important to find happiness in our memories and be very thankful to have them! - Wendy Card

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

If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it. - G.K. Chesterton

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness. - George Eliot

The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you. - Anonymous

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

Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. - Anonymous

The past is already documented and the present is taking shape with every moment, but the future is always in-view. - Seun Ayilara

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel - Jack Cady

You may not able to hear the song of your heart but the universe can. - Debasish Mridha

It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up.

You cannot tell what a puzzle is by looking at a single piece; understand people are the same way; don't define them by singular action, but their pattern of behavior. - Steve C. Roberts

Every now and then I have to take a backward step in giving in. Not because of expecting something in return. But because I want to see how far God has changed me from what I used to be. I guess this is the only pain of humility! To offer your own heartbeat every single day! - Carvic Valdellon

You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away. - Debasish Mridha

The battle is not with the human flesh, but the mind. - Goitsemang Mvula

VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill.

Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does not produce results. - Da Anunciação Marco

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey P. Newton

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words. - Abraham Verghese

Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that.... - Munia Khan

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment. - Émile Zola

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

They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence. - Aleksandra Ninkovic

I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship. - Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp

I'm on my way...don't know where to, but my road is build with metaphors and nonsense - Yesenia Barkley

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. - M. F. K. Fisher

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. - René Descartes

I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great. - Jen Mann

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time. - Sanober Khan

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. - DaShanne Stokes

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all. - George E. Vaillant

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

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought. - Debasish Mridha

I miss your smile… but I miss mine more. - Laurel House

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

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be. - Marty Rubin

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

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be. - Ron Hall

You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God. - Eileen Anglin

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

One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. - Meryl Streep

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines - Pawan Mehra

Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice. - Deyth Banger

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... - Walter Mosley

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. - Robert Henri

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying. - Anthony Liccione

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. - Henry David Thoreau

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them. - Kartik Mehta

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

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

I used to arch my back for boys who couldn’t even remember the color of my bedsheets.But you, however, made me turnover the arch on my mouth. - Sade Andria Zabala

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. - Stella Benson

I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute thair seed. - Marlon Brando

Accept the life that comes. Work and strive, but accept. Don't force the world to be the one you dream. - Susan Spencer Wendell

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

A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Making our worst decisions in life, can destroy us, but God is trying to Rebuild us - Gary Louis

Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. - Jeff Jarvis

Love can blind you, but woe to one who becomes both blind and deaf. - Matshona Dhliwayo

For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism. - Amit Kalantri

I love you not because you're beautiful, but its through You that I discover more of myself! - Ramana Pemmaraju

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

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door. - Mehmet Murat ildan

I’m dying twice as fastas any other Americanbetween eighteen and thirty-fiveThis disturbs me,but I try not to show it in public. - Essex Hemphill

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here. - Kirstie Alley

We are humans first and the law always protects our basic human rights, but survival always remains a chance for any of us to go through hard times and make it through the day. - Auliq-Ice

I don't have to many friends, but that's ok. I choice to have it that way, It's pretty liberating. - Cliff Hannold

They say that facing oneself is the sign of a zany man, but facing this flabby belly requires a lot of courage.

You know you truly love somebody...When they hurt youAnd you still forgive themAnd they let you down But you don't leave themAnd they leave you But you can't help thinking about them - Mouloud Benzadi

Excellence is not an event but a habit. - Debasish Mridha

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. - Daniel Quinn

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

When your in pain you slowly killing your self but when your happy you are repairing the pain that slowly killing you - Dondy Subingsubing

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. - Kahlil Gibran

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. - Isabel Allende

Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story? - Chirag Tulsiani

The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. - Gabriel García Márquez

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.but if we all do that--we can make a big difference. - AVA.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. - Isaac Newton

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

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. - James Thurber

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. - Christina Rossetti

Kindness is silent, but it speaks louder than a voice. - Debasish Mridha

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem. - Kim Vogel Sawyer

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me - Jonny Lang

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. - John Updike

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. - Kazuo Inamori

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

- My love is about 2/3rds as invisible as her love, and that sort of transparency isn’t really all that healthy in a relationship. - I chop trees down with my sharpened mustache, remember? Cloning works, but can lead you in the wrong direction.-Jarod Kintz and - Stefan D

God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent! - Shannon L. Alder

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun. - Surgeo Bell

Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard. - Logan Keys

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. - Vannevar Bush

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl! - Carry A. Nation

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act. - Cinda Williams Chima

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler

Be a nonbeliever, but never forget to believe in yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Love has eyes, but does not judge,and has hands, but does not hurt. - Matshona Dhliwayo

...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

Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person. - Eraldo Banovac

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. - James Thurber

I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again. - Nikki Rowe

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. - Tim McGraw

I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing. - Amit Abraham

I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God. - William Porcher Dubose

She was the unlucky lover,who loved everyone but herself - Mandeq Ahmed

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan. - Erna Paris

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO! - Steve Maraboli

Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal - Rodrigo De Saro

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success. - Steve Maraboli

Night never judges, but morning never forgives... - Mehek Bassi

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul - Harold Klemp

Certainly, it’s wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy. - Suzette Hinton

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. - Núria Añó

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

Its not about reaching a Peak but to develop an attitude of discovering new Peaks in Life! - Harrish Sairaman

A camera is a save button for the minds eye. - Roger Kingston

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."[1967 interview] - Ray Bradbury

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause. - Compton Gage

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. - Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I’ve noticed and believe should be said. - Auliq Ice

You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there. - Christopher Rees

Are you eating to live or are you eating to die? Food is not just for nourishment. Food is for information, it is for intelligence. It is for wisdom, but more so it is to create clarity within your self. - Angie karan

You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but no the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns. - Kingsley C. Okei

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."

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

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from. - Royal Cromwell

Many people in life will catch your eye, but few will catch your heart. Make sure you notice the difference. - Lorri Faye

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

Everyone has a story to tell. But the story of your life is only yours and it's uniqueness makes it a real one. - Premchand Shetty

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

If you have no time to love everyone, then just love one, but don't forget to love. - Debasish Mridha

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. - Kahlil Gibran

You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass. - Jay Woodman

Anyone can give any number of advice often nice with the word ‘YOU’ in own voice; but he who is truly different, positive and wise always shows a constructive action on his words to unearth lies. - Anuj Somany

People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail. - Shannon L. Alder

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

for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? - Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results. - Franz Kafka

We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the land of the dying and going to the land of the living. - William Zemba

No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact. - Walter Willet

We fall many times. But we find strength within to rise again. - Lailah Gifty Akita

At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But it's up to us to decide whether it will consume or it will purify. - Cristen Rodgers

We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven. - Scott Hahn

It is not because of setbacks that most entrepreneurs do not reach the finishing line, but because of a lack of willpower and motivation. - Danny Mekić

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether. - Dada Bhagwan

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. - Elayne Boosler

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. - Kent Nurburn

nothing but a soul can feel what the heart says nothing but a soul can understand what the mind says. - Sarah Pussell

Some people will try to talk you out of chasing your goals; not because they think you’ll fail, but because they are scared you’ll succeed. - Steve Maraboli

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

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. - John Mason Brown

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just." The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!" - Ambrose Bierce

The greatest warrior is not he who conquers his enemies, but he who conquers himself. - Sensei Darian Stokes

No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories. - J'aiti

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight. - John Cheever

I'm not perfect,I won't be. But I'm a human with mistakes and I'm coexisting with my mistakes - Mohammed Sekouty

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. - Mary Shelley

Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach. - Criss Jami

The problem isn't easy access to guns, but easy access to oxygen. Certain people shouldn't be breathing.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us; but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us. - Robert Vanleeuwen

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. - D.H. Lawrence

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people. - Guy Kawasaki

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself. - James Anderson

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

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

People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz

It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life. - Debasish Mridha

When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. - Emmuska Orczy

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. - Aser Alas Jr.

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold. - Anthony Liccione

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret knowing me. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past. - John A. Ashley

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? - Paul Simon

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. - Peter Drucker

No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities. - S. A. Tawks

I do not take advice from people who are 100 percent sure. I take advice from those that believe they are as close to sure as possible, but understand they could be completely wrong. - Marc Marcel

I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die. - Jim Baen

I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. - Unknown

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. - Bob Newhart

This is my toughest time but the greatest. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. - Alexandra K.Trenfor

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. - Robert Aickman

There are so many kinds of beauty-have you ever looked in a small hidden pool in a wood, Becky? It's full of beauty, but it's not in the least spectacular, only restful and quiet and never-endingly fascinating. - Betty Neels

Read much, but not many books. - Benjamin Franklin

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. - Antonia Brenner

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

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw

We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one. - Steven Pinker

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. - Karl Lagerfeld

I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one’s writing ability—what I call word work. My goal from then on was to make sure my writing skills were up to speed with my imagination. - Marvin Brown

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more. - Bill Clinton

Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one. - Steve Maraboli

Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy. - Auliq Ice

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. - Karl Marx

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

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart. - Carl White

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing - Shujoy Chowdhury

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

I know I have a long way to go but for now I am taking my life one day at a time. Enjoying every minute of my youth as far as I could. I know I am still young but no one is ever too young to have a dream so big to inspire many people. - Diana Rose Morcilla

I can see education is everywhere, and many people were educated. But I realize that common sense is not that common. - Nurudeen Ushawu

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Making time for what you really want to do can be a full-time job, but only if you allow it to be. - Stephen Richards

Lean in a bit so you can see the beautiful world, but don't lean in too far because you can fall - Nina Boddin

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality. - Alija Izetbegović

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams" This guy gets around more than Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, but this time, I think he's gone too far. Unfortunately, I can't put a cover of my book My Year in Oman with Mr. Williams' picture on the cover. - Matthew Heines

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way. - Swami Dhyan Giten

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith. - Anaïs Nin

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. - Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn’t she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin’ all over a stack of griddle cakes? - Colleen Houck

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making - Reba McEntire

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable. - Brandt Legg

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

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. - Dylan Thomas

I know you weren’t born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too. - Amna.s

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do... - John Geddes

Compassion means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one who understands. - Rachel Hamilton

You are looking at the world from your window, that’s good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. - Nelson Mandela

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet. - D.H. Lawrence

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

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time. - Joseph Campbell

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make," but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. - Ambrose Bierce

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. - Raheel Farooq

Your words were music to me tonight, but you weren't mine to listen to. - Jenim Dibie

Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion. - Debasish Mridha

Indeed," Fowler answered. He turned and looked at Tony critically. "I say, old man, but you're not much older than that German kid."Yeah," Tony grinned. "But I'm from Texas and meaner than a junkyard bulldog. Makes a difference, you know. - Robert L. Wise

Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – Did you ever try buying them without money. - Ogden Nash

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. - Sir Francis Bacon

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

Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol - Matthew Leeth

Our life is but a wave in the ocean of consciousness. - Russell Eric Dobda

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. - John Steinbeck

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers. - Brian K. Vaughan

We want money but we crave appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

Happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome. - Ane Krstevska

Time has no sense but it makes all the sense - pavankumar nagaraj

It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain. - Sunday Adelaja

The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. - Debasish Mridha

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you? - Isaac Asimov

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. - Stephen Colbert

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform - Susan Cain

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. - J. K. Rowling

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind. - Debasish Mridha

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. - Victor Hugo

Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry. - Lailah Gifty Akita

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. - Lee Smolin

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes. - Joan Lingard

Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth. - Mark Passio

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. - Gordon Atkinson

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? - Chuck Palahniuk

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

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

You may bend, but you will not be broken. - Chris Burkmenn

All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful. - Amit Kalantri

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. - Charles Lamb

I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I'm afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future. - Luffina Lourduraj

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. - John Holt

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. - Vladimir Nabokov

Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion. - B.C. Sirrom

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up - Jodi Picoult

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. - Tom Robbins

The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity. - Scott Thompson

Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us. - Ogwo David Emenike

Education is the freedom of wisdom , knowledge and understanding. But been educated does not guarantee success in life, but it's the key to everlasting life. - Bada Aderibigbe rasak

Success always hugs you in private,but failure slaps you in the public... - sahil banga

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there. - Shawn Lukas

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

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him. - Arthur C. Clarke

And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it. - Mark Twain

Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive. - Adam Gopnik

You know you have the key to my heart and no one but you can open it. - Auliq Ice

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. - Sir Winston Churchill

The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers. - Huseyn Raza

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Szasz

1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA - James Dalton

It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying. - Marty Rubin

From this day onward whatever circumstances may jam my way I'll break through it unscathed for in the end who will but suffer but me, so much so that I will reach for the unreachable, I'll break that which is unbreakable and attain that is impossible! - Liliosa Hilao

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe. - John F. Baddeley

You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency. - Alan Cohen

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body. - W.B. Yeats

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life. - Daisaku Ikeda

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience. - Amit Kalantri

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. - George Packer

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals. - Amit Kalantri

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes. - John Ruskin

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it. - Ruben Studdard

Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write. - Richard B. Knight

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald MacLeish

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. - Criss Jami

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer. - Debasish Mridha

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. - Thomas à Kempis

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes. - Steve Goodier

I may be alone, but I am never lonely. I am always with my best friend, and that is me. - Debasish Mridha

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. - Patrick Henry

You can try to defend discrimination on grounds that people are acting according to their conscience, but never forget that those same people may find it conscionable to discriminate against you next. - DaShanne Stokes

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life. - Debasish Mridha

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. - Henry Ward Beecher

God is subtle but he is not malicious. - Albert Einstein

In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus. - Crystal Mary Lindsey

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- - Franz Bardon

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies. - Daphne Tsoulia

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

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead. - Scott Thompson

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. - Voltaire

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

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds. - Robert Anderson

Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS - - Nikki Rowe

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others. - Josephine Ross

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,... - Dodie Smith

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens - Jimi Hendrix

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them. - Sarah Tse

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. - Leon C. Megginson

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive. - Michael Bassey Johnson

True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness. - Matthew Donnelly

...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion. - Charles Dickens

Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine - Lao Tzu

The Nature cannot Speak with words but will show us In the Future what we do Wrong now. - Jan Jansen

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. - Judith Martin

Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion. - Debasish Mridha

True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun. - Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception. - Debasish Mridha

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. - Samuel Butler

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

We have nothing to fear but fear itself - Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. - William J. Bennett

They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile. - Dominic Riccitello

There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species. - Bill Nye The Science Guy

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. - Max Born

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

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

Age doesn't count, but sense - Eli Coffie

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When you make a mistake, understand it not as a mistake but as a lesson. This however, is if and only if you have learned something from it. - HENRY E. REYNOSO

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. - Euripides

I may not be perfect for you or the world but guess what I'm not perfect for myself either. I'm dead to you and the world just as I'm dead to myself.-p.b - Primrose Burrell

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield

On the canvas of life we often go off colour, but as long as there are special people to add the right shades.. Life goes on to be a rainbow. - Pravinee Hurbungs

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

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life? - Diana Rose Morcilla

Hope is the blue skyAlways inviting but always shy. Hope is the flowers of imaginationAlways stimulate our mind for action. - Debasish Mridha

The world belongs to those who know how to love but not how to judge. - Debasish Mridha

Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one. - Debasish Mridha

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen - Horace Mann

A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends. - Todd Stocker

You might be on the right track, but you can't just stand there! - Samer Chidiac

SilenceIt has a sound, a fullness.It's heavy with sigh of tree,and space between breaths.It's ripe with pause between birdsongand crash of surf. It's golden they say.But no one tells us it's addictive. - Angela Long

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

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

Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species - Munia Khan

Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft... - Rasheed Ogunlaru

This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea. - Cormac McCarthy

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life. - Amy Layne Litzelman

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment. - Lao Tzu

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps. - Eddie Izzard

Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness. - Matthew Kelly

It was always about the money, but when you want to be successful and all you think about is the money, all you work for is the money… You will never be successful. You will be blinded and make mistakes especially when you are disparate, so I guess it never really was about the money. - James Jean-Pierre

CLEOPATRA: My salad days,When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,To say as I said then! But, come, away;Get me ink and paper:He shall have every day a several greeting,Or I'll unpeople Egypt. - William Shakespeare

Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face. -RVM - R.v.m.

Overwork has long been cast as a choice, and a positive one borne out of love at that. But the truth is that for so many, there is no choice. - Miya Tokumitsu

Comments are free but facts are sacred. - C. P. Scott

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. - J. Oswald Sanders

1408 Film by Stephen King freak me out, the story also freak me out. But watching the film how is made, how much reverses were shown just terrified me. The ending was suprising! - Deyth Banger

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it. - Tim Burton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Dating's like going on a job interview. You don't know if you'll get the job, but if you do, you get to see the interviewee naked. - Waiter Rant

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. - Barbra Streisand

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are. - William Jay

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

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God - Billy Corgan

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. - Ellen Goodman

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

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all. - Rollo May

The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th right question? - Deyth Banger

How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S