Quotation Explorer - 'But'

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

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. - Anna Quindlen

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

Having the best doesn't make you the best but producing the best makes you the best - ejembi louis

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd

Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down. - Magith Noohukhan

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

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart. - Dominic Riccitello

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them. - Widad Akreyi

Know I don't hate youDon't wanna fight youKnow I'll always love youBut right now I just don't like youCause you took this too far - Relient K

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever. - Joan F. Marques

Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it! - Mignon' Talise Padilla

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

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

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator. - Debasish Mridha

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

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self. - Robert Tew

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. - John Maynard Keynes

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind. - Joseph Conrad

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful. - Michael Franti

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins? - Ron Brackin

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend. - John Adams

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. - Lawana Blackwell

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past. - Cindy Crawford

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

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. - Mark Twain

Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear. - J.H. Lee

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. - Thomas Jefferson

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Always think about how you can contribute and never think of how you can receive a contribution. - Debasish Mridha

look, tiny - i’m trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i’m always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don’t know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always. - David Levithan

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Sir Francis Bacon

You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future. - Steven Redhead

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. - William Shakespeare

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. - James M. Barrie

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. - Horace

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Jackson

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health. - Amit Kalantri

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. - John Milton

Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant. - Debasish Mridha

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best - Lil Wayne

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running - Steve Aylett

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg

sometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it - Meena Khan

Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution. - Debasish Mridha

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Everything but a life can be replaced. - Marty Rubin

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness. - Debasish Mridha

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it. - Kyle Morton

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. - Tony Schwartz

Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models. - Steve Keen

It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted. - J.R. Rim

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

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding - Donna Jo Napoli

Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures. - Wes Adamson

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What’s at our core, then? What’s still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped? - Isaac Marion

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless - Luke Edison

I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through. - Gugu Mona

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

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

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

I like to say, but saying is too much." We understand not the same. - Gilbert Alexandre

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice. - M.F. Moonzajer

I live well with very little things but not without my dignity - Rui M.

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. - Temple Grandin

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it? - Michael Swanwick

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection. - Thomas L. Friedman

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - George Bernard Shaw

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing. - Kevin J. Donaldson

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

It is for a specific reason that you were born from that specific place. Never wish that away because it's not where you were born that matters, but who you were born to be. Jesus was born on the kraal and He became a King of Kings. - Gugu Mona

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. - Martin Luther

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - Hilaire Belloc

True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal. - Anthony Liccione

No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land. - Rod McKuen

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success. - Randy Gage

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski

Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

How many times you failed will not be counted, but the time you stood up and fought back will be counted. - Debasish Mridha

The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. - James Carroll

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root. - G. K. Chesterton

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes. - Randy Cohen

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. - Marlo Thomas

John raised an eyebrow. So you wouldn’t date someone like you?Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts. - Forrest Carr

The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything. - Diane Setterfield

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect. - Amit Kalantri

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] - John F. Kennedy

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this. - Immanuel Kant

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. - Fran Lebowitz

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing. - Paul Laurence Dunbar

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. - Michael Jackson

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve made many mistakes, but I’ve learned from them. - Auliq Ice

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Gerry Geek

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made. - John Schaar

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. - Oscar Wilde

So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it is worth fighting for. - Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

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

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends. - Pope John Paul II

But one kiss levitates above all the others. Theintersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. - Jeffrey McDaniel

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

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things. - Donald Miller

My life may not be scintillating. But living it is more interesting than watching yours. - Kevin Cheng

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces. - Michael Bassey Johnson

It is easy to create a memory, but it is almost impossible to forget. - Debasish Mridha

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

Sex is like the cherry on the top of a sundae, but you need to make the sundae first, if you get my drift. - Zane

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

When a person asks a queer person why they like the things they do, you can't help but think that it's a little rude for them to be asking, because there is no answer, we were just born that way. Just like straight people, you were born the way you were born. So leave it. - Mekiah Johnson

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid. - Madeleine L'Engle

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Okay, time to play doctor.Her entire body quivered, sending yes please vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. Sure, if I can be the doctor.His mouth curved. I’m willing to take turns, but me first. - Jill Shalvis

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. - Lucille Anderson

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

There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love. - Debasish Mridha

Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know. - Joan Ryan

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

When you're birthing something you might experience hurt, pain and discomfort but don't stop "pushing". - Tonya Hilson

That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains. - K.W. Jeter

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. - Woflgang Amadeus Mozart

You can have your wishes but you must work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Doctors says it is impossible to live without a heart, but is extremely unbelievable to see how many heartless humans are living in this strange world. Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE for humans beings, even living without a heart. - Angela ShahAnwar

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. - Samuel Johnson

A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it. - M.F. Moonzajer

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far. - John Milton

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

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. - Dejan Stojanovic

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. - Horace Mann

Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes. - Ambrose Bierce

We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice. - R.N. Prasher

It started In heaven I know Lady love may die Lady Love may grow But you know You’re my eternal love …………………. - sami abouzid

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. - Confucius

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Love not your dream but the road leading to it and you might still fail, but you shall definitely end up enjoying every moment of your life. - Sorrab Singha

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. - Marie Leneru

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

More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son - Sunday Adelaja

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. - Novalis

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively. - Raheel Farooq

For peace, look not outside but inside. - Debasish Mridha

It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect. - Auliq Ice

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it. - Debasish Mridha

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

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. - Amelia E. Barr

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

Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it. - A.D.Y. Howle

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter. - Niall Williams

What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone. - Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)

Sometimes life isn't what you expect it to be, and you feel like giving up. But isn't life supposed to be full of challenges that will make us learn from our mistakes. And mistakes make us better people. - Raj Solith

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. - Stuart Stevens

Life is very simple, but to make ourselves feel intelligent, we insist on making it complex. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

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

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated

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.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain. - James Rozoff

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

she had known the consequences when she took off, but for whatever reason, she left anyway. - -Garcia Stohl

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors - Arthur W. Pink

But for their cries,The herons would be lostAmidst the morning snow. - Chiyo Ni

It is not the success but the failures that glorify success. - Debasish Mridha

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. - Jonatan Mårtensson

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. - Orson Scott Card

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly. - Dr. Myles Munroe

Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. - Thor Heyerdahl

A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough. - Richelle E. Goodrich

What makes someone irresistible,is not their looks, but the way they can make your mind tickle,your heart race and your soul smile, all at once. - Wordions

Look, he said, the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed, I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that? - Sarah Dessen

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do. - Sarah Manguso

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

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. - George Bernard Shaw

No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you. - Beau Taplin

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

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

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. - James Franco

Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. - Dan Quayle

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

What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences? - Deyth Banger

Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer. - Erica Goros

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know. - Friedrich Hayek

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. - Joseph Conrad

Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. - Samuel Chadwick

Living is not existing but to live with joy. - Debasish Mridha

What is a man but another man's memory - Addison Killebrew

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. - Harry Truman

They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, its gonna scare 'em.

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

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist. - Mehmet Murat ildan

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. - Raquel Welch

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

I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it. - Jenny Lawson

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin

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

If you dreamed to have a tranquil life then do not bother either exasperate or infuriate other's life. Dreaming a tranquil life is good but you cannot surmount it if you have a lot of foes indeed. - Albert Subrado

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone can love a loving person but give your love to someone who doesn't deserve it - Debasish Mridha

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. - Sarvesh Jain

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

Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored. - Musawir Masood

A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. - Anonymous

Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you - John Zea

Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott

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

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future. - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

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

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had I time to love, but sinceSome industry must be,The little toil of love, I thought,Was large enough for me. - Emily Dickinson

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. - Kathleen Norris

If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it. - Chris Burkmenn

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A change in my stance too takes a little effort .... But then that change is what enables me to be at a better vantage point as with or without me the world around me is always changing. - SWANSH

It is not what you say, but how you say it. "Pick that pencil up! -would you mind picking up the pencil? - would you please pick up the pencil?" The way things are said, makes a huge difference in what people think of you. I told my daughter this many times. - Linda B D

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. - Dorothy Parker

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

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. - Santosh Kalwar

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis. - Vincent E. Barry

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. - Tom Stoppard

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. - Norah Jones

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

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor. - R.G. Yoho

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. - Eric Hoffer

You may fall many times, but you must keep going. - Debasish Mridha

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

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same. - Thor Odinson

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening

We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful - Salman Ahmad

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. - Ani DiFranco

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. - Philip K. Dick

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. - Kathryn Davis

The greatest treasures are not found in museums, but in our hearts. - Matshona Dhiliwayo

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves. - Lao Tzu

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are. - André Aciman

You can seize away my opportunities but never the passion that I possess. - Harshada Pathare

Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm. - Paul Farmer

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. - D.H. Lawrence

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

An aspiring politician should know that attacking a man is much easier than attacking his points, but attacking his points is much more useful.

I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car. - Emma Daley

Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close. - Moosa Rahat

Beauty is not in a woman’s face but in her soul. - Debasish Mridha

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. - W. C. Fields

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith. - Emanuel Swedenborg

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all..... - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files thingsaway. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! - John Irving

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. - Sarah Kay

Woe be to him that reads but one book. - George Herbert

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. - John Updike

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble. - George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other... - Harry Truman

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. - Matt Groening

You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time? - Bob Moawad

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable. - Jeph Jacques

No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming. - Olive Green

Most of the day I live for the day. But some days I live for tomorrow. - Premchand Shetty

First things first, but not necessarily in that order. - Doctor Who

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person. - Debasish Mridha

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't. - Auliq Ice

She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that. - Archna Mohan

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

There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke. - Nikki Rowe

Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power. - Debasish Mridha

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

Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential. - Vishwas Chavan

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. - Malcolm X

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other. - Barack Obama

Love costs us much,but we still need it.Wisdom costs us much,but we still seek it.Faith costs us much,but we still practice it.Life costs us much,but we still desire it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. - Eric Hoffer

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

I am a flower on the tree we call the universe. My mind is dancing with joy like butterfly. - Debasish Mridha

Thou art not for the fashion of these times, where none will sweat but for promotion. - William Shakespeare

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed. - Vasily Grossman

i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back. - Anthony Castillo

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

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. - Cristina Marrero

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused - Amit Abraham

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. - Edgar Allan Poe

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. - Widad Akreyi

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning. - Thomas Merton

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. - Anthony Liccione

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

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent. - Nike Thaddeus

The world loves talent but pays off on character. - John W. Gardner

Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies.

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

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. - William Burton Pope

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

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it? - Umberto Eco

A person who is truly positive will not merely advise others to stay away from the negative people ,but will also back-up own point with a solid action/reason somewhere as why s/he calls someone a toxic. - Anuj Somany

Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle. - Plutarch

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing

We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment. - Dana Arcuri

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

if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace". - grace of God

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. - William Shakespeare

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time. - Wendell Berry

Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades - Loveless, from The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII

I could feel a deep connection to Spirit in every glorious sunset and awesome wonder in every uncurling flower, but I couldn’t feel anything like that in the hollow words of men gone by. - Patricia Robin Woodruff, The Call of the Spectacled Owl

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. - John O'Callaghan

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

Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart. - Lili St. Crow

It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything. - C. JoyBell C.

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. - Michael Bassey Johnson

When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose. - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. - William Shakespeare

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same. - Richie Norton

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species. - Kevin Bacon

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

Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it. - the adjustment bureau

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

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. - Albert Einstein

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. - Rabino David Wolpe

There are many ways to love, but mutually is the luckiest. - Shampa Sharma

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively - Bob Marley

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

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Native American Proverb

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.Sara looked directly into his eyesI nothing else, you need to remember that. you can't erase history, or change it. it would be like destroying yourself. - Haruki Murakami

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions. - Orrin Woodward

Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will. - Val Irvin Mabayo

Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light. - Ken Poirot

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. - P.G. Wodehouse

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going. - Dominic Riccitello

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous. - Thucydides

Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as the next reader's. - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom. - Queen Of Spades

How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success. - Debasish Mridha

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. - Habeeb Akande

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

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick. - Dave Chapelle

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun is always the same. - Marty Rubin

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

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. - James Reston Jr.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. - Henry Miller

Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people! - Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by - Cyci Cade

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions. - Anupama Chopra

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

But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought. - Euripides

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. - Dejan Stojanovic

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. - Martin Luther

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

You are free to travel on the road you pave for yourself but you have to pay penalty if you do not go in the right direction. - Amit Abraham

We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere. - Apoorve Dubey

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible. - Nina Guilbeau

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable. - James Salter

Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning. - Michael Meade

Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am. - Anthony Anaxagorou

How people treat you is not very important but how you react to it, is very important. - Debasish Mridha

I am ready for love, but I am not a seeker of it. My truth is; the more I love who I am, the more I will attract my perfect mirror of love to meet me halfway. - Nikki Rowe

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. - Mark Helprin

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things. - Dele Ayo Bankole

(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford).Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you. - Peter Rogers

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. - Jack Kerouac

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science. - Debasish Mridha

I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation. - Mitt Romney

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers. - Harry Truman

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

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace - James Butler

You might be educated, but if you are not kind you are not wise. - Debasish Mridha

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. - Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the , millionaire son. by jostalin - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self. - Richie Norton

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

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

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them - Haruki Murakami

...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? - Washington Irving

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

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. - T. Casey Brennan

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work. - Auliq Ice

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby

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

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is. - Steve Martin

Jasper set an intercepting course towards that Rhylonian Star Duster. Maybe we can catch them on their blind side.Doesn’t this ship have a cloak? Jaq asks.Miss Synergy, I don’t know what they teach now a’days at the Academy, but ships do not wear clothes. - Nathan Reese Maher

Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD. - Henry Johnson Jr

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical - Trey Parker

I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true. - Leila Sales

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. - Bertrand Russell

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better. - George Eliot

He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope—scared him out of his wits. - V.S. Carnes

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

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that - Steven Aitchison

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. - William Penn

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. - Paul Dudley White

Do you mind telling me what you pray?""I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."And have you?""No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it. - Katharine McMahon, The Alchemist's Daughter

I am a diamond But people see me as goldHonestly, I wanna be silver - M

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. - John Dewey

She glanced at Jem expecting to see him blinking in surprise or hurt, but he was only smiling a little as if Will were a kitten that had tried to bite him. - Cassandra Clare

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. - Harlan Ellison

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.Seems more logical than undergoing all kinds of hardships only to die eventually anyway (through bites/malnutrition/or terminally chapped lips) - Graham Parke

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. - Oswald Spengler

Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both. - Dawn Huntsman

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to. - Julianne Moore

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus. - John Gardner

What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago. - Debasish Mridha

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. - L. M. Montgomery

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. - John Green

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite... - Jules Verne

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. - Debasish Mridha

Mean wordsOnce upon a time, I loved you But I will neverI swear. - Arzum Uzun

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. - Jonathan Swift

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality. - Debasish Mridha

It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it. - Moshe Dayan

Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey. - Jennifer DeLucy

God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does! - Gary Patton

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 process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being, where you absolutely relax yourself and feel rejuvenated to experience life again. - Roshan Sharma

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christine Bovee

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks. - William Shakespeare

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

The room was full with voices, loud music and beautiful people milling about everywhere. But all I noticed was her; beautiful, elegant and sitting alone in a quiet corner trying to remain unseen, to blend in, to become invisible, as if she actually thought such a thing were possible. - Tonny K. Brown

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wishes to die. The same could be said about success. Everybody wants to achieve it but few are willing to pay the price of success. - Michael A. Contés II

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. - Thomas Merton

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

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith

That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule. - Jonathan Odell

I know everything of what i know, but of what i dont know i know nothing - karah louis

Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold. - Steve Maraboli

I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her. - Kate Stewart

The challenge is not finding and/or telling the truth , but finding a person who on telling the truth is willing to listen and/or accept it. - Anuj Somany

The stars do not shine but in the darkness; they reveal their glory only when man is asleep and not watching. This is one of life’s deepest secrets. - Frank F. Gelat

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. - Dame Rose Macaulay

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

Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth. - Andy Beckett

Love surely is said to be blind but at times it takes blind turns. - Amit Abraham

After the barter system money was introduced to the world and it had a limited value, but as the time passed it's value increased and now in 21st century money is given the value of GOD. - Neymat Khan

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Oh, dead man, you're dead wrong, I tell him. The world goes on stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. - Jennifer Donelly

Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes. - Arzak Khan

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. - Democritus

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

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. - Jane Austen

You may slip but God isn't going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you. - Auliq Ice

Dream 2 Defy! Extreme is not a style but a way of life. - Jeff Hardy

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. - Sabine Shah

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

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. - Henri Matisse

You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy? - Natalie Babbitt

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent. - Joss Whedon

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

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace. - Debasish Mridha

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. Good to remember… - Elif Shafak

The Christlike life has nothing at all to do with satisfying, coddling, or promoting self, but everything to do with being poured out for others. - Claudia Barba

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. - Mollie Marti

I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism. - L.M. Montgomery

It is nice to touch, it is nice to be touched, but it is so much nicer to touch someone's heart. - Dixie Waters

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

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. - Dawn Powell

You don't need sex to make love, but you need love to make sex. - M.F. Moonzajer

The self centred disregard for anything living outside of me , is pure solipsism. One may feel the world is pure evil but its " I " who filters the thought through "my "own un - coping mind, seeking complete annihilation of the world for my own self relief ! - BinYamin Gulzar

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. - Voltaire

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

Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost

I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. - Sarah Kay

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. - George Bernard Shaw

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor. - Sharon Shinn

When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it. - Munia Khan

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993) - Maurice Sendak

To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense. - Christopher Hudspeth

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. - R. Buckminster Fuller

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. - Victor Hugo

I am a conscious parent. That means I realize that I am not here to teach my children, but rather we are meant to teach each other. I have found that the truth is that I have far more to learn from them than they could ever learn from me. - Monika Zands

If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle. - M.F. Moonzajer

A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. - Martin Luther King Jr.

If we can be Glad .........But we choose to be Sad, we are MAD! ! !- - RVM

But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. - Sherri Gaillard

The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education. - Debasish Mridha

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self. - Shih-t'ou

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson

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

How does the moon feel as it sees the ocean lap at your shores? The eternal pain of knowing you are there but forever out of reach... - - Morris R. Gates

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before. - Jane Austen

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything. - Anthony Liccione

There are many different forms of betrayal, but one hurts the most, Betraying Your Self. - Auliq Ice

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. - Gary Snyder

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. - Frank Crane

What you do is your choice. You can make good or bad choices, but there will never be any right or wrong to who you are. - Imania Margria

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

To feel loved again feels good, but to know they don't love you make things worse. - Ishmael Emmanuel Balfour

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. - Marcella Hazan

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. - Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. - Paul Pearsall

Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But the sun...?! Go get some. - Robin Caldwell

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do! - C. JoyBell C.

The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never become emotional! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Follow your dreams. I am not saying it’s going to be easy, but I am saying it’s going to be worth it. – - Moffat Machingura

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!! - Rachitha Cabral

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. - George F. Will

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr.

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar. - Anthony Liccione

I fancied you'd return the way you said,But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song - Sylvia Plath

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. - Deepak Chopra

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. - Payne Stewart

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. - Norman Schwarzkopf

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. - Lady Gaga

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change. - Sue Fitzmaurice

People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life. - Sunday Adelaja

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

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock

All men are troublesome but some are more troublesome than others.All women are troubles although, some are more of a trouble than others. - Prinx Maurice

I never cut my neighbor's throat;My neighbor's gold I never stole;I never spoiled his house and land;But God have mercy on my soul!For I am haunted night and dayBy all the deeds I have not done;O unattempted loveliness!O costly valor never won! - Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson

Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life. - Balroop Singh

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

* , a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa? - Hedy Lamarr

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy. - Debasish Mridha

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere. - Anthony Liccione

Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type. - Rigzin Namgyal

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin,and the coin tossedinto the sky,the coin will spin,the coin will flutter,but the eagle will never fly. - Henry Dumas

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries. - Cicely Hamilton

What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two get together into one.They don't separate.The "I" and the "you" disappear.I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR.. - Nikos Kazantzakis

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. - Wilson Mizner

A daring heart is vulnerable, but unless it is willing to be broken it will never know the power of true love. - Toni Sorenson

Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself. - IRVIN D.YALOM

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.""Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.""We need more special effects and dance numbers. - Bill Watterson

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it? (Phone Booth ; The Caller) - Deyth Banger

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. - Alfred A. Montapert

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

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it. - Eyden I.

The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist. - Roshan Sharma

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja

One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists. - Charles Coulson

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody. - Thomas Hulme

Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order. - Kevin Hooyman

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with. - Mikhail Zoshchenko

Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by. - Nikki Rowe

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason. - Thiruman Archunan

Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

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

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. - Anna Gould

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

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us. - Israelmore Ayivor

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

Fighting for peace is not the resolution but loving for peace is the solution. - Debasish Mridha

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

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head. - Aneta Cruz

He continued along the route that he had reconnoitered the morning before. And the morning before that. He needed to change his route some to see if he was actually being followed. His instincts said he was clear, but his training ordered him to make sure. - J.T. Patten