Quotation Explorer - 'But'

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. - Steven Wright

Books are for nothing but to inspire - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is blind and now he prove that to me. He left me alone . But when she left me I now realizee that my true love is God. - Marlo Rayon Hallasgo

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

Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. - Angie karan

It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship. - Martha N. Beck

Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean! - Bob Marley

I do have faith in humanity but I don’t have faith in humans. - M.F. Moonzajer

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man’s journey towards his future. - Madeline Claire Franklin

God comes when your broken; not when you believe but he works when you believe. - tirumala

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

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

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

this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power. - Titus Lucretius Carus

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees. - Jane Goodall

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want. - Amit Kalantri

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me. - Daniel Akst

I came in haste with cursing breath,And heart of hardest steel;But when I saw thee cold in death,I felt as man should feel.For when I look upon that face,That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,Where neither rage nor fear has place,By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now! - Alfred Tennyson

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

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. - W. Somerset Maugham

Most people like to be rich, but they don’t know that the rich people are the unhappy bunch. Always marrying at least 3 times, always having drinking or drug problems and always think they are smartest one around, when in fact they can’t name 2 capitals from Europe without a Google search. - Mircea Popister

When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work. - Dhaval Gajera

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

You might call them the icing on life’s cake, but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor everyday living. These added accents or accessories do spice up the cake. If served without, life would be rather bland! - Wes Adamson

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. - Arthur C. Clarke

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. - Evan Esar

I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart.. - Laarni Venus Marie Giango

We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round. - Neil M. Gunn

But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface. - Katie Kacvinsky

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college. - Kelly Braffet

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead

I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive. - David W. Earle

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. - Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. - Horace Mann

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. - Thiruman Archunan

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

If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver! - I.R. Shankar

A present is not the source of buying someone's love but its a source of showing how much u love and apriciate that particular person - Ralph Ramovha

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

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

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

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. - Kurt Vonnegut

The problem with our society today is that when things fall apart we do remember to call upon the Lord, but when God answers our prayers we are too quick to exclude Him from those answered prayers. - Gugu Mona

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

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

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. - Sheldon B. Kopp

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

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji - Nobuhiro Watsuki

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom. - Debasish Mridha

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in. - George Orwell

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! - Alexander Pope

I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

We preach revolution but whine about the oppression in the name of change. - Goitsemang Mvula

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up - Lenny Bruce

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

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t. - Dave Guerrero

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam. - Imran Khan

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run. - Robert Jordan

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish to record. Not the ones I made, but the ones I might have made, or perhaps did make in some other place or time. - Jeanette Winterson

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. - Yukichi Fukuzawa

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

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide

Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently. - Roshan Sharma

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. - William Shakespeare

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

The more knowledge that distributed, the more people know, so the more worthless that knowledge. - Danny Listyo

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. - Leo Tolstoy

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 wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it. - Max Frisch

Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better. - David W. Earle

I am that woman...A woman with compassion and empathyAn alluring woman whose beauty emanates from the insideA woman of courage and perseveranceA woman gifted with many talentsA woman who has so much to give and know where she is goingA woman who is everything but lost without you. - Julie Cox

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

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there. - Debasish Mridha

24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing. - Nike Thaddeus

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. - Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end. - Jorge Luis Borges

Respect all men but fear none. - Tylor Ilori

Now, nature, as I am only too aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them. To put it bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. - Fran Lebowitz

Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end. - Deyth Banger

I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating - Kate McKinnon

Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined! - Heidi Reagan

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians -- who are Hogmies. - Ambrose Bierce

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. - Bertrand Russell

Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics. - Neel Burton

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that. - Ellis Peters

In life, your greatest wealth is not your money, but it is your time. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

I now watch porn, but I don't have the feeling to go to the bath and start to jerk off. It's the world bad idea ever came. I have quite jerk off and I will quit it's not the way I should live, the same is for you! - Deyth Banger

People will print what they will capturing but try to give the real image through positive thinking for that you will prove them how they are wrong! - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information. - Gail Carriger

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music? - D.A. Botta

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

God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads? - Ali Al-Ahmed

I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. - Vicktor Alexander

What is happiness but to allow yourself to see the world through somebody else’s eyes.... To let your senses become someone else’s senses... To permit getting inside the mind of another... Yes, that is pure high spirit of the soul. K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it. - Debasish Mridha

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

Work towards a goal, but try not to visualize the successful result: if you don’t achieve success, you will be disappointed; if you do achieve success, you will already have experienced it in your mind’s eye. - Clifford Cohen

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

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

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

There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before. - Nikki Rowe

Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy. - John Mark Green

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

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. - Simone Weil

Love is a strange but wonderful. Who realy knows what it is? I know what it is to me...its you. - jordanblue1101

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart. - Anderson Cooper

It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way! - Deyth Banger

The world we have created, has problems, that can not be resolved by rich getting richer but by sharing we can over come the problems" - 2008 - Dr. Ron Harris

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place. - Iain Thomas

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. - Naomi Wolf

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. - Elvis Costello

A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be - Francis Gay

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. - Ralph W. Sockman

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still. - Camilla Gibb

Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success. - Debasish Mridha

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

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. - William Kittredge

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money - Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt. - G.A. Henty

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights. - Ellen J. Barrier

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. - Willard Van Orman Quine

It's inevitable. When you meet the one who makes you smile as you've never smiled before, cry as you've never cried before...there is nothing to do but fall. - Renee Ahdieh

Sins vary in shapes & colours, but "lying" is the common core.تظهر الخطايا بألوان وأشكال مختلفة، ويبقى "الكذب" محورها. - Wafaa Nowaihed

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'": 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. - Kingsley Amis

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

Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart. - Marty Rubin

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo?Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school.""Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from. - L.A. Weatherly

The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true. - Jed McKenna

Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. - Evan Esar

Success comes to those who are aware of failure but are success conscious - Seyi Ayoola

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

Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer. - Sunday Adelaja

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end - Amanda Palmer

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

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

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

Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind ‘man-made global warming’ is denying the existence of atmosphere. - Dave Champion

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you. - Steve Martin

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

And my head told my heart"Let love grow"But my heart told my head"This time noThis time no - Mumford & Sons

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours... - Gabriel Thy

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. - Don Roff

You realize that you aren’t leaving the battle field behind but are actually taking it with you and it will be a part of you forever - Laura Sobiech

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

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

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond. - Solange nicole

I have but one anchor in my life and that is my love. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

It’ll always be mine, but it’ll always be your heart. - Dominic Riccitello

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens. - Richard Curtis

You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick. - Donna Lynn Hope

Never give up, but learn to surrender as well - Zain Baloch

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. - Ann Radcliffe

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

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

I don't know what to do, I want to die but you're making me stay alive, I'm not sure if I should betray you and do it or move on and push through it. - Lindzz

Only God is good.""We can make good works,We can be called good folksWe can do good,but we cannot be good. - Mac Canoza

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself. - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

Life is nothing but a sea shell in the ocean of love. - Debasish Mridha

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. - Washington Irving

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin

And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me! - Laurie Anderson

One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one - Ikechukwu Izuakor

We want to change from featureless caterpillars to become beautiful butterflies, and the change takes place wrapped up in our own little cocoons. - Roy Smoothe

Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better. - Debasish Mridha

It takes but a moment to fall in love; it takes a lifetime to forget it. - Debasish Mridha

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been. - Roman Payne

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. - A.A. Milne

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you feel good about your life at all times, you feel like living in your dreams. But sometimes, people around you pull you out to see the face of reality. - Taranpreet Singh

Why is it that we feel bad when all we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work. - Dillon Burroughs

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention. - Jill Alexander Essbaum

The enemies of freedom are strong but freedom is stronger. - Marty Rubin

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community. - Rhoda Janzen

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!"---, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories - Richard Bach

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. - D.R. Silva

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

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious. - Debasish Mridha

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be. - Ryan Lilly

I keep myself busy with things to do but every time I pause I think of you. - T.J. Klune

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore? - Dominic Riccitello

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction. - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability. - Ron White

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor

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

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

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Woody Allen

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer. - Larry McMurtry

But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking. - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney Company

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

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

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink. - Amit Abraham

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

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. - Scott F. Fitzgerald

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. - Alysia Harris

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. - Fiona Apple

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. - Seneca

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Age is not specified by years, but how you feel and right now I am 99 year old - MHQ

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

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

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

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. - Mary Shelley

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife - Jasper Fforde

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them? - Jonathan Cainer

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn

Don't ever forget that life has nothing to do with what you are doing, but has everything to do with what you are being. - Donald Pillai

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. - Jacques Derrida

Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. - Ramakrishna

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical.... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her. - Julia Child

The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation. The Word became flesh, not ink. - David D. Flowers

Don't think, but look! (PI 66) - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater - Rania Al Abdullah

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts. - Omar Khayyám

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill

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

A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. - Shannon K. Butcher

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

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

The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually. - Colleen Houck

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. - German Proverb

Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It’s a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you’re with a friend. - Amy Poehler

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

It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that. - Connor Franta

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance. - Ben Johnson

Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough! - Stephen Richards

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom

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

When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery. - Steve Maraboli

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. - Charles F. Glassman

Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.

Death is an old joke, but it comes fresh to everyone.

We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be able to get a hard-on, or worry that a bloke across the room might be looking at your bird and you might have to fight him but he looks well hard. - Russell Brand

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. - Guy de Maupassant

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

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

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

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

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

You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free--you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary. - Arvo Pärt

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. - H. L. Mencken

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? - Epictetus

It’s good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you’ll get there, not because you’re destined to, but because you’re determined to. - Steve Goodier

The fact is that a person has to not only often unwillingly retract from own right words, but also many times apologize for the same ,in fact, on telling the people the undeniable, altruistic fact. - Anuj Somany

I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox. - Michael McClung

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

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

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing

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

When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time. - Kristin Bartley Lenz

Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress,Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it. - Tina J. Richardson

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing. - Darnell Lamont Walker

The purpose of life is not success, but happiness is. - Debasish Mridha

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

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better. - Darmie Orem

Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth. - Eric J. Martindale

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

There's a beginning to every story but there's never a story that begins the same. - B.K Laurel

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings. - André Gide

Practice patience to get the results but don't be much patient to take actions. - Amit Kalantri

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

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

Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness. - Jaeda DeWalt

It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140 - Robin Romm

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try. - Margaret Drabble

But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity. - Michka Assayas

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

We don't forget... we remember... but later it becomes so faded and light in our memory that it no longer holds power to influence us anyway... - shivangi lavaniya

Those who love, never complain, but those who don't love, always complain. - Debasish Mridha

Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it. - Auliq Ice

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. - Yves Saint-Laurent

Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to. - Davin Turney

But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,I fear to call thee mine;The springs of comfort seem to fail,And all my hopes decline.Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?Thou art my only trust;And still my soul would cleave to thee,Though prostrate in the dust. - Anne Steele

Happiness is a shadow. If you chase it, it moves further away. But if you turn to make others happy, it will follow you. Make others Happy and be Happy. - RVM

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. - William Zinsser

Don't be sad that I'm autistic. Love me for who I am. All of me. Some things are difficult for me but I'm okay as I am. - TinaJ. Richardson

Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death. - Debasish Mridha

Butterflies are like angels kisses sent from heaven. - Malia Kirk

You can lead a fool to knowledge but you can't make him think - Andrea L'Artiste

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. - Umberto Eco

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating. - Melanie Benjamin

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. - E. L. Doctorow, The City of God

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

Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal - emma mckenzie

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. - Daphne du Maurier

Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me! - Charles R. Swindoll

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

Life’s richness doesn’t consist of not making mistakes, or never taking the wrong path but of growing stronger from each decision made, good or bad. - Elle Sommer

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

Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness; disappointment is sadness. - Debasish Mridha

At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him. - Lionel Suggs

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it. - Compton Gage

all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead. - Robert Vanleeuwen

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. - William Gibson

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it's so hard to refuse. - Elvis Costello

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

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism. - Sunili Govinnage

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. - Kris Vallotton

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made. - Robert Browning

I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am... - Jesse Ventura

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up. - Anne D. LeClaire

The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled. - Henry Johnson Jr

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. - John Calvin

Dreaming is good, but actions are better. Actions are what transform dreams into reality. - Debasish Mridha

If a person is not careful of oneself, many others around make him fool by giving plenty of advice full of lies . Some will do it intentionally but most of them ignorantly. - Anuj Somany

Each sunrise is a masterpiece, but few appreciate it; therefore, don’t be disheartened when people disregard your kindness. - Matshona Dhliwayo

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly. - William Shakespeare

I honor the past. I'm loyal to the future. But I fight with the present. Since NOW's where I belong, every battle's fought with urgency. - Ace Antonio Hall

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless. - s.w.collins

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. - Octavia E. Butler

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.

But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick. - Brandon S. Graham

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. - Ken Levine

Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue. - Jim George

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. - Henry David Thoreau

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. - G. K. Chesterton

Freedom, joy or bliss doesn't come from the situation that we think we should be, but it derives from the one that we are already in. - Aditya Ajmera

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people. - Munia Khan

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy! - Israelmore Ayivor

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. - Gerald R. Ford

Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak. - G.K. Chesterton

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

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

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. - Walt Whitman

Frances was not only grieving her sister's loss, but also striving to reconcile in her mind the tragedy with the idea of a loving God. Restless and aching, Frances climbed mountains in the Swiss Alps, where their hotel had a view of beautiful Mount Rigi. - Nancy Carpentier Brown

We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy. - Debasish Mridha

Yes, you may ask my name but only if you can tell me: are your thighs as fine as a fresh, crisp morning in early July? - Robert Clark

Beliefs are many but truth is one. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

The principle of God is every human created for the help of other human to survive the journey of life but the principle of God gonna wrong way, as now human are the main cause of destruction of other human. - Arbab Jehangir

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

we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence. - Auliq Ice

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. - Edgar Allan Poe

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy. - Nathaniel E. Quimada

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem. - Michael Kurland

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

Optimists think badly, but live well. - Marty Rubin

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

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude. - Geoffrey Wood

The light within is a fire, whose flame does not burn, but brings warmth; and whose rays do not blind, but illuminate. Once kindled, it blazes a trail and lights our way. - Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)

I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be? - Ralph Ellison

Challenges will come, but success is proof of challenges conquered and difficulties overcome. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Fear leads to no where but to ground zero. - Auliq-Ice

A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. - C. JoyBell C.

You can go as far as you believe it, but through prayer you can exceed it. - DeWayne Owens

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game. - Dee Dee Artner

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's. - Michael Ignatieff

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson

I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me. - Robert Browning Hamilton

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. - Anthony Lane

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words. - Bikash Bhandari

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong - William Shakespeare

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful. - Benjamin Meadows

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. - Helen Keller

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls. - Paul Nash

I'm simpley one hell of a butler. - Sebastian Michealis

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

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

Actions are based on attitues but behaviours based on character - pavankumar nagaraj

I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both. - VaZaki Nada

Measures are too often decided, not accord­ing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. - James Madison, the tenth Federalist Paper

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Gustave Flaubert

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

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about. - Søren Kierkegaard

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it - William Meikle

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

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money. - R. Kent Hughes

Life is unfair, but that's no reason to give up on it - Anonymous

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family. - Wendy Davis

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. - Vladimir Nabokov

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination - Paulo Coelho

Not only believe in yourself but trust in yourself. Confidence will bloom. - Debasish Mridha

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

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou

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

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own. - Michel de Montaigne

He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary.

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

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness. - Natsuki Takaya

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality - Oliver Sacks

People interfere in a person’s internal family matters not with an intention to resolve the feud, but mere with a selfish interest of showing own importance as a judge. Only foolish individual invites those devilish minds as mediators in own private home dispute. - Anuj Somany

Turn to the wind, I dare youFor time is but a space that is capturedLive in fear or peace, which will you?For none shall stand at easeIn fickleness of all human natureYou will fear while in peace and complain while in fear. - F.N.Collier

Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration. - José Antonio Bowen

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in. - Jim Butcher

Nothing but your choices define your life. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it - Sahndra Fon Dufe

To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter. - Aristotle

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

FOREVER" is a long time, but I wouldn't mind spending it by Your side... - Pooja siwa

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. - Anthony Liccione

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - Butterfly Weeds - Laura Miller

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. - Samuel Butler

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. - H. G. Wells

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

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

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

Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" ) - Erik Pevernagie

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam. - Muhammad Abduh

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

We may have an education, but we are living on a bride between knowledge and wisdom. We think of ourselves as educated, but we may not always be wise. - Debasish Mridha

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. - Eric Hoffer

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

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

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. - Ernest Hemingway

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences. - Shannon L. Alder

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you. - Jim Butcher

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

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. - Abraham Lincoln

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

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on timeBut then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuseMy hungry heart - Nikki Giovanni

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. - Thomas Jefferson

Never live in the past; were it good to do so, butterflies would crawl back into their cocoons. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance. - Even Engesland

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

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

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. - John C. Maxwell

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals. - M.F. Moonzajer

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy. - Diane Von Furstenberg

Dare to keep moving when it is a must and there 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

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules. - The Mirror of Maybe

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human. - Gary Hopkins

As she walks through her problems, miseries and bad days, she couldn't help but notice how her gait has become more poised and elegant. Earlier - she tripped over at the sight of a problem. Now - she keeps her head high and wins over them.Her problems made a woman out of a girl! - Saru Singhal

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. - Ryan Lilly

Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed. - Michelle Franklin

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? - Victoria Claflin Woodhull

The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it. - Korey G. Miracle

The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face. - Kemi Sogunle

His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow. - H. L. Balcomb

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see - John Lennon

we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right. - Temple Grandin

The spiritual process does not look outward to find beauty, but it is a process of looking inwards to see the inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. - José Ortega y Gasset

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - J. K. Rowling

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? - Zhuangzi

Health is wealth but wealth is not health - Osunsakin Adewale

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. - Ambrose Bierce

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. - Edmund Burke

Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt. - Debasish Mridha

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

Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime. - Matshona Dhliwayo

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. - Frederick Douglass

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

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start need someone, they no longer want you. - Mohadesa Najumi

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. - Seneca

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind. - Roshan Sharma

Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life. - Abhijit Naskar

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

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. - Peter De Vries

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.""You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]"But I came far. Miles can be years. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Life is but a play and we are merely the characters of our own scene. - kamar brown

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. - George Gordon Byron

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding. - Walter Wink

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

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

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

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. - Jane Austen

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it. - Paul Gitwaza

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing. - Debasish Mridha

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

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart,let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better.Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker.Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. - Bradley B. Dalina

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System. - Nina Leavins

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

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. - Randy K. Milholland

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid. - Alan Dapre

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

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds—and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried. - Mohammad Zayer

You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are. - Shannon L. Alder

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. - Walter Benjamin

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

We’re always looking, but we never really see. - Milton Glaser

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. - Marcus Allen

Awakening to the people's nature for a person brings sadness and not happiness, for it is very much like glowing of a bulb from outside for others but inside own feeling the burning sensation. - Anuj Somany

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T.S. Eliot

Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse. - Evan Baldonado

You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of hope and a smile on my face ~ this is life baby and freedom fills my days. - Nikki Rowe

War is a seed of bigger war, but Peace is the seed of God. - Iisakki Totuudentalo

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. - Harper Lee

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture. - Richelle E. Goodrich

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. - Doris Lessing

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

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name my own congressman. And that's what makes America great.

A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face. - Laura Moncur

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that! - Mignon' Talise Padilla

You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay. - Ani DiFranco

If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life. - Sunday Adelaja

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity. - Reona Peterson Joly

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with. - Ryan Lilly

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. - Charles Bukowski

Fall down twice... get up three times. - Found on a button on a curtain

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley

Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss. - Carl Henegan

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. - Dorianne Laux

Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you.But you needn't let their actions control your response and out-look on life. You can learn to rise above life's disappointments. - Prince Akwarandu

Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire! - Mehmet Murat ildan

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. - Paul Valéry

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. - Vishwas Chavan

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

People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery. - Deyth Banger

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen

You will never know just how thrilled my heart is to behold such a throng of people; especially as they have gathered to pay tribute and love's greatest honor to loved ones who, today, are basking in the sunshine of God's heaven. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

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

In the morning envision victory,at night dream of it,but during the day fight for it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need. - K.L. Toth

Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you. ~ . - Onyi Anyado

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. - Andre Malraux

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. - Joseph Heller

I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser. - Debasish Mridha

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

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? - Lemmy Kilmister

Some people are designed to be included in your story but not part of your destiny. - Ane Krstevska

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. - George Carlin

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry

Measure your life not by years but by adventures. - Debasish Mridha

Getting an education might be difficult, but it makes life easy. Being uneducated might be easy, but it makes life difficult. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. - Henry David Thoreau

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere. - Jeff Bauman

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose. - J. B. S. Haldane

Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience. - Jeanette Coron

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

Change is fearsome, but stagnation is lethal. - Debasish Mridha

When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated - Sunday Adelaja

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

As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account. - Anonymous

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. - Emma Goldman

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

Success is never a place but a perspective. - Debasish Mridha

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. - Lord Byron

Things happened to the worst, I've lost many things and I've got many things but the precious thing I have with me right now is "having me still". I love myself. I love myself unconditionally. I feel proud about myself. Now I'm living without limited because "I have me". - Sivaprakash Sidhu

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. - Herodotus

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. - Narcotics Anonymous

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

I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love. - Debasish Mridha

taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. Carl Sagan - Frederick Douglass

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

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it - Lawrence M. Krauss

Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sellFor promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell! - Robert E. Howard

It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world’s darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density. - Haruki Murakami

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. - Billy Joel

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. - Heloise

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. - John Locke