Quotation Explorer - 'But'

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have? - Lisa Bedrick

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own. - Herman Melville

For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear. - Alijia Izetbegovic

I have a plot, but not much happens. - Howard Nemerov

I used to [have regrets]. But I forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it, too.

I have no riches but richer thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. - Napoléon Bonaparte

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. - Boyd K. Packer

The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes. - Dada Bhagwan

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

MakeNew FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVerThe Other is Gold. - Chetan Bhagat

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. - L. M. Montgomery

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

a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back. - Sanober Khan

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

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

.it's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher.. - Boris Kovalík

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

Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments. - Alva Noë

We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart. - Gugu Mona

I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night. - Anna Jae

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. - William Blake

The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love. - Richie Norton

I see humans but no humanity. - Jason Donohue

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer. - David Morrell

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now. - Israelmore Ayivor

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic. - Harold Jones

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Victory & failure are second things but at least you tried that's more important..!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life. - Debasish Mridha

Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul. - Jirō Taniguchi

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. - John Lennon

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One. - Harrison Owen

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. - Abraham Lincoln

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him. - Shannon L. Alder

God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated. - Nthabiseng Motjamela

There was no one innocent amongst us, I realized then. We were all sinners, one way or the other. We hurt with our hands, with our mouths, or with our minds. But what matters was the ‘why’.~Eyes of a Goddess - Ukamaka Olisakwe

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized. - Drew Hayden Taylor

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Elizabeth I

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you. - Zig Ziglar

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.

Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong. - Amit Kalantri

You know that you know... but you don't know that you don't know. - Deyth Banger

Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, strive to be beautiful from the inside. Surface beauty will fade through time and age, but beauty from the heart, however, will never fade. - Emily Eaton

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

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

Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy! - P.C. Cast

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'(Women in Love) - D.H. Lawrence

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? - Śāntideva

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. - Mario Vargas Llosa

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

His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror. - G. K. Chesterton

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

Character is doing what you don't want to do, but know you should do. There's plenty of room and company on the broad road, but it's not easy to walk on that narrow path. - Joyce Meyer

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. - Edward Everett Hale

The door of opportunity is always open, but you have to find the door to enter. - Debasish Mridha

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

Love does not cost a thing, but it is priceless... - Stephen Richards

Worthless is life just dreaming but not working, - - Taleeb

I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow? - Brandon Sanderson

I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist. - Albert Einstein

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection. - Amin Maalouf

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences. - Saaif Alam

i'm too lazy to go find happiness,but i'm sure it will swing by sometime - Amal Sagheer

We unfortunately identify people by their religion, but my question is that, how can you say that we got different religious when we all smile in a same language..! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent. - Swami Beyondananda

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - W. Somerset Maugham

Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification? - R. Stevens

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

Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. - Unknown

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

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. - Frank Herbert

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

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

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Be the one whose Lord is Jesus and who takes His words as a final authority without any thought of controversy. True believers follow Jehovah, not only for what He does, but specially for who He is. - Israelmore Ayivor

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. - Anne Carson

Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him. - Brandon Sanderson

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

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have. - Oliver Gaspirtz

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body. - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis - Yana Toboso

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men. - Björk

Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky - The Wanted

Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights. - Santosh Kalwar

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

My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History - Ahmed Farrag

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back. - Joss Whedon

Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth. - Max Zeller

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly getting together, but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor’s eyes for the image of himself, and never saw anything else. Or if he did, he was outraged and terrified. - Olaf Stapledon

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Life isn’t life without real butter. - A.D. Posey

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind - Elizabeth Sims

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

We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we handle them. - Markus Pappa

I'm a wanderer. But i don't wander to explore the outer physical world , I do it to explore the universe inside me. - Appu Nirmal

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer

The greatest gift of life is love, but not many people seem to feel it or even understand the meaning of it. - Mouloud Benzadi

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. - Elsa Tamez

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

God makes the harvest to grow. But we choose the kind of seed we sow. - Benjamin Lotter

When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression. - Henry Johnson Jr

Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights. - Jaeda DeWalt

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; - Albert Camus

No man is born to change the world, but just to add a piece of humanity to it. - Eraldo Banovac

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

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

No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning. - Aimee Herman

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Sir Winston Churchill

The Amusement of every second is not a tolerable limit.But as it is, now it's all set on the highest limits of the sky.Mind Body Spirit,learn Transcend Teach. - J.T.Abraham

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. - Robert Fripp

...no pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit. - Jill Alexander Essbaum

I am a nobody but I work for everybody. - Amit Abraham

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. - William Blake

The door to success may be a few steps away but you still have to walktowards it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard..... - Andy Flynn

There are many roads, there are many choices, but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness. - Debasish Mridha

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you… - Emme Rollins

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. - Plutarch

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. - Paula Vogel

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

We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it. - Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know. - Zia Haider Rahman

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. - Esther de Wall

The Spartans do not ask how many but where they are. - Agis II of Sparta

For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment. - Jennifer Howard

wait until god call u , but don't wait forone's helping hand because god given utwo hands - yakoobkhan

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

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- - Jeanne DuPrau

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

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards. - Jim George

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. - Gabriel García Márquez

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. - Lord Byron

You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving. - Debasish Mridha

I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand. - J.R. Rim

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.Then, the music speaks through the performance,and the performer and the listener will walk togetherwith the soul of the composer, and withGod. - Mstislav Rostropovich

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me. - Liz Kessler

You may know me... But you have no idea who I am... - Lily Fulljames

My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors. - Anonymous

Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky... - Herodotus

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...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

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world.There are no fearless people, only fearless moments. - Peter Høeg

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions. - Raheel Farooq

Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny. - Liam Payne

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

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

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. - James Thurber

I don’t know who you are, but I want to let you know that I really care. - Debasish Mridha

Don't complain because it is very difficult to be successful but rather be happy because there are many opportunities to be a success. - Debasish Mridha

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. - Samuel Butler

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky. - Ovid

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

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. - Donald E. Knuth

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good. - Raheel Farooq

Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said. - Genevieve Cogman

Searching for nothingWondering if I’ll changeI’m trying everythingBut everything still stays the sameI thought if I showed you I could flyWouldn’t need anyone by my sideI'm running backwardsWith broken wings I know I’ll die - Sully Erna

Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others. - Nutan Bajracharya

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - Walter Bagehot

Something but not nothing because nothing is an infinite possibility. - Kyle Kipple

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn vos Savant

I wrote relationship spelling as "realationship" when I was in 5th class. But English teacher smiled and gave me marks. - Rakesh Vemulawada

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. - Paul Tillich

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well - Richard L Torres

Love is not about making promises but it is about believing - Anamika Mishra

Sometimes we think the hardest part of life is letting go, but what we fail to realize is that learning to start over makes it hard for us to let go." - W.J. Dolor - Wilfred James Dolor

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

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart. - Kemi Sogunle

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. - Debasish Mridha

Religion is the world's label for following God. But, it is a one-on-one, daily and personal relationship that God seeks from all of us. - Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac? - George Carlin

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

I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appearance, I have a three piece underneath. - Hubert Martin

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces. - Lori Jenessa Nelson

Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others. - Steve Maraboli

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind. - Sara Sheridan

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. - Daniel Webster

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. - Niels Bohr

Take it easy, but take it. - Woody Guthrie

No one can make you feel anything. Emotions are whatever you choose to feel. It might be an instantaneous decision - to choose to be happy or sad or offended or hurt - but it's still a decision. - Lisa Magnum

Your words are like mirrors. They may cut, but they also reflect. - Timothy Joshua

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. - Toba Beta

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie. - Joe Blow

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

Dream hurts; yet we never stop dreaming; just like the way love hurts but we still love to love - Munia Khan

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. - Woody Allen

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

With Time, you can create Money, but with Money you cannot create Time. So Time is more valuable than Money. - RVM

You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong. - Morrissey

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. - Maya Angelou

You can take the Muslim out of the Caliphate, but you can't take the Caliphate out of the Muslim. - Mike Klepper

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.] - Niels Bohr

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. - Unknown

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. - Jerry Flint

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever. - Ethel Percy Andrus

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. - George Carlin

When you show compassion instead of being judgemental. You will not undergo your own judgement, but you will receive your own love - Guus Gelsing

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon

We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention - Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

Be thoughtful but never forget to be kind. - Debasish Mridha

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain. - A.B. Shepherd

Though I live I am but dead without your Love. - Solomon Debisette

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. - Andre Gide

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

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

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her - Shikamaru Nara

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! - Nikhil Karke

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

Recently, my personal advisors have beeen telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

it may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader. - Gary Rohrmayer

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

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. - Robert Jordan

let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - Victoria Bando

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

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. - David O. McKay

But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris. - Ceridwen Dovey

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! - Edna Ferber

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

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

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

Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM - Rashedur Ryan Rahman

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.

I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like...you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged. - Jodi Lynn Anderson

That Love is Supreme which is above all the attributes of a Person. - Rajasaraswathii

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

To shame our sins He blushed in blood;He closed His eyes to show us God;Let all the world fall down and knowThat none but God such love can show - Bernard of Clairvaux

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst. - Yara Bashraheel

Chose la plus simple: apprendre une langue mais elle n'est d'aucune utilité si le sens n'y est pas. Easiest thing: to learn a language but it is useless without a sense. أسهل شيء : تعلم اللغة...لكن ما في نافع بدون معنى - Anonymous

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. - Unknown

What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance. - Steve Maraboli

Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important. - Debasish Mridha

Life is a journey, not so much to a destination, but a transformation. - Jim Britts

I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna be killed....We have to step in and help wipeout ISIS! - Cal Sarwar

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. - Peter Atkins

Don't care is what I've been trying to say .... but not able to ! - HarryKrishna

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. - William Hazlitt

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

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

Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous. - Madeleine L'Engle

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy - indonesia123

But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well! - William Wordsworth

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself... - Munia Khan

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires - Oche Otorkpa

If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you. - Rishabh Surya

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. - Bob Dylan

In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself. - Criss Jami

we do not write as we want but as we can - W. Somerset Maugham

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction. - Ehabib

Thank God I was hit by a truck. It seems that God was trying to get my attention for years but I was so stubborn it took knocking me square out of my body to see him for myself. Next time I will be way more specific when I ask for help to slow me down. - Monika Zands

A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward. - William Shakespeare

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. - Ashley Ormon

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

Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order. - Geert Mak

GOD is faithful and that is true. But I'll tell you what, GOD is even more faithful to the faithful. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God? - Father Dioscuros

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

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. - Lech Walesa

It is not always good to be right, but it is always wonderful to be kind - Debasish Mridha

Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face. - Deyth Banger

Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last. - mr. sid

All religions are correct but the religion that searches for ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who is the doer?’ is on the last final path of religion. And which knows this ‘Who’ is the final religion. - Dada Bhagwan

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease. - Robert F. Kennedy

We may not remember life, but we never forget touches of love. - Debasish Mridha

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will. - Debasish Mridha

You may hate me from your heart but I will continue to love you to touch your heart. - Debasish Mridha

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

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Miranda was dark, like a midnight sky. But as she fell, her eyes shone like stars themselves. - Dyls Downs

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there. - Adam Young

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."[A Conversation with , BookBrowse, 1998] - Alice Munro

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. - Heinz R. Pagels

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

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. - David W. Earle

Apabila dalam diri seseorang masih ada rasa malu dan takut untuk berbuat suatu kebaikan, maka jaminan bagi orang tersebut adalah tidak akan bertemunya ia dengan kemajuan selangkah pun - Sukarno

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

You aren't perfect. You aren't glass. You're not gold. You're not right. But you are precious. Remember that. - Nashi

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

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. - Gilda Radner

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible. - Anthony Liccione

I searched for my own heartand long after I had lost my wayin the days trailing past with their foliagein the aloof sky blue with distanceI thought I'd find my heartwhere I'd kept your eyes two brown butterfliesand I saw the swallows swoopand shadows starlings - Ingrid Jonker

Religions are born and may die, but superstition in immortal.

We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves. - Debasish Mridha

A good lecturer is shaped from a good researcher with good philosophy, but not vice verse. - Lecturing is a type of art.

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

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes. - Israelmore Ayivor

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. - Alexander Woollcott

Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour ,no dimension so it is invisible. - Syed Afroz Alam

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

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

I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. - Seth Grahame-Smith

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. - Augustine of Hippo

I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!! - Doha Asrir

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you. - Carlos A. Rodriguez

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. - Democritus

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. - Edith Wharton

Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes. - M.F. Moonzajer

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be. - Habeeb Akande

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

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. - Honoré de Balzac

You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart. - Dixie Waters

If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted. - Christy Leigh Stewart

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back. - Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment - Kurt Vonnegut

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. - Isaac Newton

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action. - Marty Rubin

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. - Calvin Trillin

Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself. - Edward T. Welch

Being intellectually perfect is a very easy task, but being experiential perfect is the very tough task, needs very much courage and equanimity. - - Abhinav Rajput

The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities - Manuel Corazzari

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. - Louise Beal

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling. - Shannon L. Alder

Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is. - Auliq Ice

When did your flight plan become a holding pattern, always circling happiness, but never allowed to land? Distracted by in-flight movies, drinks, and snacks, until the fuel runs out. Is this really all there is? Is this what you want out of life? - John Mark Green

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world. - Brian K. Vaughan

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

Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion. - Donatella Versace

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

... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love. - Raphael Zernoff

The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. - Theodore Roethke

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. - Samuel Johnson

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind. - Peter Rollins

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. - Adam Smith

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. - Sydney Smith

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

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity. - John Stossel No They can t Pg 32 Threshold Editions New York New York 2012

Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious. - Pamela Taeuffer

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

Never give in to the Darkness. The Light will shower you with gifts, until you let down your guard. The Darkness will only Overbear. Darkness overcomes, Darkness conquers. But Light Destroys. - Zoey-Rose Hawthorne

It is not how long it takes one to succeed in life that matters but how well. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person - Pawan Mehra

Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar! - Anne Frank

No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose. - Gordon B. Hinckley

It is better to live in a hut with abundance of unconditional love than live in wealth and splendor but without any love. - Debasish Mridha

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. - Helen Keller

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. - Philip Pullman

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants. - Tom Robbins

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

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

A leader may lead, but you have to follow to reach the destination. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself. - William Faulkner

Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge. - Debasish Mridha

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

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. - Anna Quindlen

In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. - Gustave Flaubert

Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses - Matthew Goldfinger

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

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

Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones. - Daniel M. Gilbert

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. - Pythagoras

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

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love. - Debasish Mridha

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

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be. - Debasish Mridha

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. - William Shakespeare

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. - Shandy L. Kurth

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

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

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding - Jacob Bronowski

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win. - Sarah Brownlee

The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses. - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know. - Alan W. Watts

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

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

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

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. - Kathleen Norris

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - Miguel De Cervantes

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

Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be. - Fakeer Ishavardas

There is so many books in the world, so many books on my TBR, that it would be impossible to read each and every one in my lifetime. But all that matters is that I went on these adventures, away to another life, apart from the one I am living now, and I enjoyed them. That's all that matters. - Mekiah Johnson

The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place. - Roshan Sharma

If you should see/a man/walking down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself don't run/in the opposite direction but run toward him/for he is a poet! You have nothing to fear/from a poet but the truth - Ted Joans

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and you're gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be. - Will Smith

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

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

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past. - Steve Maraboli

Your life may not be 'picture perfect' but you have it in you to make it 'your best.' There's only one chance at life and you owe it to yourself to give it all you can. - Roopleen

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson

Some people say beware of enemies. Some say beware of friends and some say beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim. - Uzoma Nnadi

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

The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin

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

A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests. - Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein

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

Peace is simple, but it takes great courage to be simple and walk the path of peace. - Debasish Mridha

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

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. - Sir Julian Huxley

Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it. - Seth Adam Smith

I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success. - Karon Waddell

Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. - Steven Moffat

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

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. - Coco Chanel

The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard - Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law. You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law.

Those who think life is money, chase it. But those who think life is sharing live to give. - Lailah Gifty Akita

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. - Aeschylus

I could’ve quit long ago, but there wouldn’t be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide. - James Jean-Pierre

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

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. - Elizabeth Berg

We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. - Cesare Pavese

To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being. - Debasish Mridha

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU. - Craig Groeschel

Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death. - Palladas

I know lonely can be hard, but the longer you stay in the wrong relationship, the longer it will take for the right one to find you. Don't stay in a relationship that doesn't build you up. - Elizabeth Bourgeret

Suicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness. - TheKatAttack

The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune. - Jean de la Bruyere

Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance. - Ann Brasco

Will there be people who will have the conscience to contribute to the country by changing themselves first? That is the need of the moment. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

...I was not prepared for the feel of the noodles in my mouth, or the purity of the taste. I had been in Japan for almost a month, but I had never experiences anything like this. The noodles quivered as if they were alive, and leapt into my mouth where they vibrated as if playing inaudible music. - Ruth Reichl

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. - Anaïs Nin

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. - Unknown

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

Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you? - Deyth Banger

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors. - Nikola Tesla

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

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do. - Mark Gorman

We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, but some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction. - Robert Higgs

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job. - R. N. Prasher

No matter how dire a situation may be, I can always find the humor in it somewhere. If I was ever in a horror movie I would be the goofy one who doesn't seem to know quite what's going on but survives to the end with witty one-liners. - A.J. Rose

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

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

To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful. - Khadija Rupa

Damnnnnn. No need to be serious all the time, for we are only dust and to dust we shall return. Just enjoy life to the fullest. Take responsibility for your actions whether good or bad. Just keep moving forward, take a break if necessary but don't ever damn stop, you fool. - I am Night Owl

Hmmm, good isn’t fun, but I’ll try, he whispers to me. ~ The Light Tamer - Devyn Dawson

If our goal is not to "succeed" or avoid failure or mistakes, but to learn something, we will never fail. - Jami Gold

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds. - Emily Hodson

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. - John Waters

There shall always be a day and a night until the world meets its ebb and we shall always hope to sleep and wake up to see another day! Such is called life! So many people have life, but, few people are living. We shall continue to exist from dawn to dusk having life and living or just having life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

failure and obstacles are not the ultimate cause that deteriorate purpose but attitude and the mind - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

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

As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen. - Hiro Mashima

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it. - Mark Twain

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant. - Abhijit Naskar

Life experiences are but moments, you can let them pass or you can make them last. - Atkinson Talvat

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

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. - Franz Kafka

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

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

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine. - C. JoyBell C.

The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity. - A.B. Simpson

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. - Samuel Johnson

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

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come. - Laurie Paige

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

To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification! - W. Ian Thomas

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever. - Yōko Ogawa

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

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. - Bible

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. - Ramakrishna

And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain. - Alain de Botton

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory. - Leonardo da Vinci

We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha - honeya

I welcome all butterflies into my heart because that feeling is a constant reminder of how alive and full of love I truly am. - Karen A. Baquiran

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop. - Jeffrey McDaniel

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for. - Christos Tsiolkas

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love. - Criss Jami

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. - Martin Luther King Jr.

A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it’s just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what’s theirs. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. - E.M. Forster

And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me. - Tahereh Mafi

We are lost, but we're making good time. - Star Trek V

In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller

Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart. - Debasish Mridha

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim. - Herschell Gordon Lewis

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Ursula K. LeGuin

It's not about the speed of the river, but flow of the current. - Lyle Rubins

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life. - Kishore Bansal

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson

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

People say - popular culture advocates - government demands that we sell our souls, for nothing but the cheapest of baubles and bling, if even that. If you do sell, the result is a gray, cheerless, and dreary existence. - Mike Klepper

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. - Indiana Lang

A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that! - Deyth Banger

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change. - Raheel Farooq

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

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth - Mary Jo Bang

I dont exist. But even if I do thats still none of your business - Mei Misaki

Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne. - Anne Tyler

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got. - Allan Heinberg

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract. - Jeffrey Tucker

In those days, he said the following: I can only give you a little; but that little, I give to you with love. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. - Nayyirah Waheed

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

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart. - Unarine Ramaru

It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. - Mico Monsalve

Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.""That sounds good."Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it. - Mindi Scott

There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us. - Lisa Williams

It’s said that ‘you have only one chance’ - but thereafter you have many chances – don’t ever quit because chance has only a fifty-fifty probability and you never know when the probability will be in your favour. So toss around until heads you win and tails you don’t lose. - Amit Abraham

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington

Writing is perhaps the best way of de-stressing, but if done with an adulteration of the feelings and/or with an expectation of an appreciation then it only and eventually leads to frustration. - Anuj Somany

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. - Asa Gray

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

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

Man can destroy a mountain within a day, but a Man cannot build a mountain in a single day or the rest of his days - Cj Lacuesta

You are mine, woman. And I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death." - Maddox , Sang Kekerasan - Gena Showalter

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. - Joan Dye Gussow

A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests. - Chris Matakas

I'd have been queen of all England, but Massachusetts haunted me and wouldn't let me go. - C.F. Joyce

The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture. - John Paul Warren

The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master. - A.D. Posey

Medicine is not a book but mind, not a business but life - Farid F. Ibrahim

I am not moved by riches and fame, but selflessness and a passion for humanity. - Gugu Mona

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve. - Octavia E. Butler

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. - Ryan Sean O'Reilly

One stroke out of sync may alter the picture, but it doesn't cancel purpose; it may slow you down but doesn't disqualify you. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think. - Rosie O'Donnell

The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths. - Nuno Roque

Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven. - Nanavira Thera

I am the love.I am drowning in your love.I am drunk with your love.I am a dumb for your love.I am crazy about your love. I dream at night about love.I know that you're my love, but I forgot how to lovebecause I become the love. - Debasish Mridha

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

But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside. - Kim Sunée

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything. - Yanni

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

today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question.... - vicky vora

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing. - Ashley Porter

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. - Eric Ripert

As the sun melts butter, love melts the heart. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, water systems, subdue the power of the ocean thereby give glory to God almighty - Sunday Adelaja

Love is not like Ice, that melts but the foundation of Respect, Love and Care - Samar Sudha

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

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it - Henri J.M. Nouwen

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open. - Baltasar Gracián

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. - Randy Pausch

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

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

Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in Merchant for a reason. You may not see it yet. But there is purpose. Father always has a purpose. - Anna M. Aquino

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. - Ilya Prigogine

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

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes. - Amit Kalantri

A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion - Priyanka Deshmukh

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder. - Harold Bloom

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious. - Stephen King

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need. - Ha Jin

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

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

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

The concept of 'home' is not just where one resides, but where the heart resides; in the purest depths of the soul.♥ - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. - Harriet Lerner

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! - Alan Alda

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox

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

Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself. - Herb True

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words - William Saroyan

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

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. - Simone Weil

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