Quotation Explorer - 'By'

Find your safe space. Approach it with grace. Listen to your body. And give yourself the permission to feel overwhelmed. You've weathered harsher storms. And the blue skies? They're on their way. - Robyn Kanner

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club. - Martin Luther

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws. - Blaise Pascal

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave. - Kirk Chisholm

First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta - M.K. Bhutta

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood - William James

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. - Sai Baba

Conspiracy is always inspired by conspirators - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results - Sunday Adelaja

A nation of philosophers [might have no need for the steadiness of venerable institutions], but a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato. - Madison, James

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. - C.S. Lewis

The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through.

Do as you would be done by - Anonymous I think

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit. - Walter Kirn

Success starts with a Wish, gets strengthened by Belief and ends with Achievement DREAM -BELIEVE-WORK-Achieve - Masood Sayed

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century.

You cannot find strength by loathing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said. - Ambrose Bierce

Meditation' an exercise to keep positive things in mind by getting rid of the negatives - Samar Sudha

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya - Ibn Arabi

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it. - Ambrose Bierce

The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God. - Roman Payne

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day. - Marty Rubin

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Byron

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal - William H. Gass

When your heart is calm and filled with love, you will not be touched by stress or anxieties. - Debasish Mridha

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love. Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us. - Raphael Zernoff

You are priceless— fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost. - Michelle McKinney Hammond

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden. - Marcia Sirota

Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the What ifs and If onlys. - Justin Young

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

Emotions and feelings don't come out of the blue they're always triggered by memories good or bad. Males and females must process both. - Mayra Mejia

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized. - Greg Palast

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. - Dan Barden

By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves. - Sallie Nichols

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards. - Priyavrat Thareja

Although it is great to know, it is better to be told, 'I love you.' Whose day can you make better today by simply saying, 'I love you?' Now do the thing you know better to do. - DeWayne Owens

Your worth cannot be determined by the value others place on you it can only be determined by what you know to be true about yourself - Blake Higginbotham

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything. - Marty Rubin

We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul. - Nikki Rowe

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life. - Brynlee

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies. - Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension. - Compton Gage

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. - Nathaniel Branden

I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Liberate yourself from unconstructive beliefs forced upon you by others for imprisonment sake. Allow into this space a new-fangled reality which warrant viewpoints increasing a new understanding. - Michaelson Williams

Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former. - Leslie White

By and by we shall say goodbye - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth. - Adedayo kingjerry

The spirit and the soul sustained by grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. - Dejan Stojanovic

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it. - Terry Pratchett

He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. - Henry Fielding

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement. - Colby Dorr Dam

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately. - Oswald Chambers

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. - Shannon L. Alder

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. - Lord Jeffery

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by - Grace Willows

Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies. - Edward Fiske

Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures - Pedro Okoro

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. - Tim Fargo

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. - Tomichan Matheikal

As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with endless power and, even better, your power of love and capacity to give grows by giving. - Debasish Mridha

To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom - Ellen J. Barrier

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. - Joan Didion

I cannot come to thee but by thee, I never come from thee without thee - Bernard

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde

Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers. - Debasish Mridha

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

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition - Philippa Gregory

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

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless. - Robyn Cadwallader

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. - Unknown Russian

Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within - Goitsemang Mvula

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job. - Sara Sheridan

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Targets achieve by chasing adventures of works.Lets find one more adventures work. - maulikatma

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here? - Charles M. Schulz

When sighs are hypnotized by sorrowHappy moments you need to borrowFrom a little child or from a birdWho has the wild freedom of soul: stirred! - Munia Khan

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. - Robert Herrick

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others. - Ashish Patel

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. - Plato

They want us to cower in fear, to strengthen their stranglehold on us by silencing ourselves. - DaShanne Stokes

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. - Calvin Coolidge

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. - Sara Sheridan

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do. - Sam Harris

How many people meet by chance and then separate as if nothing has happened, without knowing that they were perfect for each other? - Donato Carrisi

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw

It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again! - Steve Maraboli

He stood in rain and the storm, watching a demon with his face standing and laughing at him on a chariot run by drunk horses. The storm threw dust into his eyes, while the demon unleashed the horses one after the other at him. - Akshay Vasu

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. - Frank Herbert

A sage never measures people's maturity by their age, but fools do and offer them accordingly their wage. - Anuj Somany

A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree. - Dixie Waters

A man's heart is small, but it is surrounded by the immensity of its soul. Sometimes our words may appear silent, but they are certainly heading for infinity. - Walter William Safar

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones. - Niccolo Machiavelli

While sitting in the darkness in complete silence, I never realized how much there was to see and hear. There is sight and sound in darkness and silence. Learn to look and listen. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

[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

What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.

If you Looking for Perfection ,Perfect yourself by Looking Withinby isolating the Rule of Ego and Handing over the Reins of Karma Chariot to the Soul !No one can do The Perfect Act for You but your Soul in the Presence of The Supreme Soul ! - Ashok Khurana

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes. - Joyce Meyer

I think the world is run by 'C' students. - Al McGuire

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire

There are thoughts that don’t let you sleep in the darkness of nights. Thoughts of life, love, circumstances and dreams. Interestingly, these thoughts don’t disappear when you have your eyes opened in the day ahead. Whether you live greatly or not is determined by these thoughts. - Taranpreet Singh

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. - Titus Lucretius Carus

When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn't happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect one. Color me unimpressed by the Actus Purus. - Lionel Suggs

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer. - Pat Pattison

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. - M. F. K. Fisher

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! - Jacqueline Wilson

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today. - André Breton

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor. - Arthur C. Clarke

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret - hlbalcomb

One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Everybody tries to find the purpose for their life in hopes thst one more day is justified. But once you truly see, the very reason why you're breathing becomes so much more than getting by. - MercyMe

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation. - Amit Kalantri

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act. - Sabine Shah

Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. - Paul Kalanithi

When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable. - Sunday Adelaja

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life. - Shannon L. Alder

Do not settle; open up yourself by surrendering to creating your own kind of success ALL THE WAY! Whether you have superior or less-than-average skills, you will cultivate your success story through determination and consistency. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles de Montesquieu

There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom. - Jp Delaney

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. - Daniel Keyes

Worse than not giving credit to the right person is only giving it to a wrong one and that’s being unfortunately done by most people too often. - Anuj Somany

Something or someone is always waving goodbye. - Marty Rubin

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue. - Bertrand Russel

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. - Stephen Hawking

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'. - Gary Larson

Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul,And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible. - Jacob Nordby

Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face. - Alyscia Cunningham

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical. - John Marks Templeton

E o amor e a gratidão podem dissolver qualquer doença. - Rhonda Byrne

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. - G. K. Chesterton

CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread. - Ambrose Bierce

We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure - James Scott

When I Find Myself in A Depressed State, I Try and Write to Feel Better. However, If Writing Doesn't Work, Then You Can Almost Always Catch Me Watching Cartoons on Television, Like Scooby-Dooby-Do or The Munster’s. Unfortunately, I Am Watching These Programs Nearly Every Day. - Chris Mentillo

Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances. - Janice Anderson

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

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. - Alan Watts

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes. - Ambrose Bierce

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience. - Roscoe Pound

Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. - Toba Beta

Love is a nonexistent myth; a precious commodity cherished by the dying and the weak in spirit - Levi Cheruo Cheptora

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. - Barbara Kingsolver

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. - John R.W. Stott

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. - Paul Auster

By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react. - Nina Joshi Ramsey

In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. - Jon Ronson

Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future. - Elena Conis

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. - Sir Arthur Eddington

Jesus Christ on earth was to destroy ignorance by manifesting light - Sunday Adelaja

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

I'm appalled with description of "Sex Criminal" as recreation. Just responded to "20 minutes of action" by father of Stanford rapist. Lots of women at Goodreads, what are you thinking? - Bawb Cawx

Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn? - Alyssa Day

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. - David T. Dellinger

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere - T-anne Constable

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. - Sheldon Richman

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

It only takes one person to change your life for the better: YOU. Develop yourself to be excellent for success, by working hard and smart. Make success your chosen target. - Mark F. LaMoure

We are transformed by every sacred-experience. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? - Charles Stross

All the music I write is a search for myself. - Bruce Hornsby

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. - Banksy

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. - Natalie Clifford Barney

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers - William S. Burroughs

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. - Socrates

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. - Jonah Goldberg

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person. - Jurgen Habermas

Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit.I snap sticks beneath my feetand steal pictures of the view while you reach for something sweet, as much as it bowsto you. - Kristen Henderson

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word. - Ander Monson

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat. - Amit Kalantri

By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively. - Joe Abercrombie

The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds - Deon Potgieter

The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom. - Sachin Kalbag

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. - Publilius Syrus

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up. - Alacia Bessette

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. - Brian Tracy

The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon. - Kevin Dalton

Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them. - Emily Thorne

Only by spending and investing love you can get it back. You are adorned with unlimited love, so spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can. - Debasish Mridha

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. - Anais Nin

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. - James M. Barrie

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

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. - Leo Tolstoy

It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else. - Robin Hobb

Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance. - R.A.Delmonico

The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution. - S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet. - Christopher Hitchens

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all - Bruce Cockburn

Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak against someone else may find you sooner than you think. Speak blessings not curses. It's what I told my son. It's what I'm telling you. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers. - Steven Magee

May every soul be rescued and redeemed by the Saviour. - Lailah Gifty Akita

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison. - Tom Fitzpatrick

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free. - Clarence Darrow

A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. - Theodore Roosevelt

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. - Criss Jami

There are some bad people on the rise;they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives. - Morrissey

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them. - Henry David Thoreau

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man. - Richard Llewellyn

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones. - Michael Pollan

Man conquers the world by conquering himself. - Zeno of Citium

Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it. - Sunday Adelaja

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises. - K. Hari Kumar

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies. - David Gaider

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. - Les Brown

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. - Baruch Spinoza

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too. - Patricia Briggs

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature. - Edith Wharton

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (Tomorrow) - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Novelist by day; screenwriter by night. - A.D. Posey

A man is known by the company he avoids. - Anonymous

Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination. - Debasish Mridha

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice. - Xavier Rosseel

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. - Anaïs Nin

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. - Mary MacCracken

...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.... - Bob Dylan

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters - Tony Hoagland

We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think. - Jaeda DeWalt

I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old - Dr Jenan Alatrakchi by Aleksandr Orlov A Simples Life

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. - Christopher Morley

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

Bob's Words:Nobody knows what tomorrow bringsBy loving, giving, caringAnd sharing todayLets one know that if tomorrowDoes not comeToday is a good day to be the last - Greg Noack

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Measure your day by the love you are giving away. - Debasish Mridha

As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws. - Henry Whitehead

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. - Norman Vincent Peale

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge. - Lionel Suggs

No man was ever wise by chance - Seneca

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. - Thomas Hobbes

The universal fact is that the majority do not have the affordability to buy the precious, so if a person is being liked often by most people found around, they might be considering him/her only meretricious. - Anuj Somany

I'm not saying it's going to be easy; I'm saying it's going to be worth it. If it were easy, you would've done it by now - B. Dave Walters

Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. You’re not worthy is one of them. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music. - Debasish Mridha

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day. - Tasha Hoggatt

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man. - William Styron

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. - Socrates

Don’t measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached. - Debasish Mridha

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success - John Calvin

On with the dance! Let joy be undefined! - Lord Byron

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

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. - Francis Bacon

If you want a man to learn, teach him; but if you want a man to follow, teach by example. - Joshua Suya Pelicano

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves. - Debasish Mridha

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

UNSOPHISTICATEDI sing my merry songat first blush of daythis external peacetendered by the soft shadeof tidy clouds idly crossing places,a fresh note returns to mind:I am unsophisticated at heart. - Tara Estacaan

A country as such does not be good or bad, only the people are good or bad, that too change by generations and this scenario is same to any nations. what India really have is a rich legacy.. nothing else - Rajesh Nanoo

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

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. - James Thurber

I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. - George Orwell

You have been crafted with utmost care and creativity by your Creator. There is none other like you in the world. - Pooja Ruprell

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. - A.D. Posey

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others. - Thiruman Archunan

If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists. - Abhijit Naskar

The paradox of education is that any man only educated by others is an uneducated man; without self-education you cannot be educated one in strict sense of this term. - Elmar Hussein

When troubles come into my life which burden my heart and my mind,I know that God will guide me by making his presence shine. - Liz Liaw

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you. - Shannon L. Alder

I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet. - Anya

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas. - Henry Thomas Buckle

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. - Sir Philip Sidney

If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now. - Frank Zappa

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature. - Marsilio Ficino

Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days."From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE - Destin Bays

It is always easier for a person to befriend a lot of people by doing things wrong than saying things right. - Anuj Somany

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. - Darby Conley

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light. - Dejan Stojanovic

While police internal affairs is allowed to protect corrupt police officers that engage in unethical behaviors, illegal activities or murder, there will always be a genuine mistrust by the common people. - Steven Magee

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. - Leo Rosten

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

Love is written by the soul. - A.D. Posey

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis

it [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow process of pain, and the transformations and transmutations of grief, like rot in the earth-mould, like roots and other blind things moving in the grave. - A.S. Byatt

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force. - John Chrysostom

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. - A.D. Sams

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience. - Joel T. McGrath

If tonight is my last, I would run towards the sea, wildly swim the tides, the jump up the hills, flounder the cliffs and take all big strides, for I am a wanderer, awed by nature's charm who would love to breathe his last in its embracing arms. - Arvind Parashar

Many people can easily make out if a person is working or just enjoying by misusing his powerful position and s/he does not need to give any explanation or clarification for his action. - Anuj Somany

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

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) - John Calvin

By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. - George Bernard Shaw

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged! - Michele Jennae

Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing. - Debasish Mridha

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. - Erwin Schrödinger

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.

Don't judge people by what others tell you; rather judge them by your experience and encounter with them. - Oscar Bimpong

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book. - Kathy Griffin

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. - Dan Quayle

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive. - Frida Kahlo

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

Never feel intimidated by defeat nor death, but rather intimidate life with your dreams. - Auliq-Ice

You find peace not by creating but by giving. - Debasish Mridha

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

They say a witch-doctor can't heal himself but I beg to differ. I have been in deep end but somehow Managed to keep my head high....all by myself. Self belief, self efficacy.....and leaning to God each time you sense imbalances - you will definitely make it. - Kwanele Booi

The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT - Sunday Adelaja

Success does not come by itself; you need to fight for it. - Sunday Adelaja

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. - Leo Tolstoy

You can't live life being second best. - Alex Trimble performed by Two Door Cinema Club

I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing - Gore Vidal

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. - Pope John Paul II

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself. - Walt Whitman

Beauty identifies by face, but justifies by only heart. - Shashank Rayal

I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage. - Margaret Atwood

I used to think meditation served the purpose of clearing my mind of dreams. Good and bad, dreams do affect us in our daily mood. Now I wonder if meditation unlocks them, utilizes the wisdom that has been sent to us by our subconscious. - Robert Black

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive. - Abby Morel

It all comes down to who's by your side. - Nicholas Sparks

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - Marilyn Ferguson

The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain. - Michael Grant

You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever. - Abby Morel

Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will. - Fakeer Ishavardas

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. - Mark Twain

The sweetest misery is that caused by love. - Alexandria Heather

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

You find the meaning in life by giving yourself away not by satisfying yourself. The most gratifying thing, at 73 years old, is to be able to think that your life was used to help others.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all. - Arthur Byron Cover

Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. - Aristotle

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. - Michael Crichton

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. - Theodore Roosevelt

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. - Ryan Lilly

Women are aroused by the strangest things, like a rock going through their bedroom window - Josh Stern

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. - Ambrose Bierce

Your destiny can only be defined by you. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea. - Saim .A. Cheeda

When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are - Paresh Shah

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. - John Muir

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby

The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride. - Nathanael Greene

Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices. - Asma Naqi

If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come. - Amit Kalantri

You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest. - Don Camillo - Giovannino Guareschi

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you. - Ray A. Davis

the skies frighten you when they fill up with dragons,but you know they’re being chased by dreams! - Marianthi Devaki

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything. - Fran Lebowitz

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. - Thomas Carlyle

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for. - Blake Lewis

The universe is a philosophical abyss. - Kedar Joshi

Open your heart to the wonder of life simply by opening your heart. - Toni Sorenson

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal - Vijay Dhameliya

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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

Feeling like I have thorns on my body everywhere, That's by nobody want to stay in my life, They just come and leave me by saying you are everything I can wish for but they need time to be sure and after that they disappear and never come back !! - Paul karan

At every age we play the same game, just by different rules. - Mohammed Khambaty

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. - Hippocrates

The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality. - Elisa Camahort

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. - Evan Esar

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. - Thomas Paine

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. - Ram Dass

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. - Tony Meloto (Your First Job by: N. Dy)

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"By - Ted`s Tale - T. Afsin Ilgar

Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds - Abdul Sattar Edhi

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. - Richard Dawkins

BARBARIC! - Robert Byrd

I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity. - Sunday Adelaja

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest. - Lord Byron

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men.

Not everyone talks in words. - Nema Al-Araby

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion. - Monica Fairview

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?""Kiss a cow farm boy - Nora Roberts

Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things. - E.L. James

Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. - Marty Rubin

By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying. - Dorothy Parker

Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! - Marisha Pessl

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker - Benjamin Franklin

Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie. - Ashwin Sanghi

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand

... I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now. - Claire North

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

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. - Emil Cioran

Art is made by the alone for the alone. - Luis Barragán

Passion is the fuel that drives ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results by aligning their hearts, minds, beliefs and efforts. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. - Auguste Rodin

If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for! - Stefan Emunds

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. - Tennessee Williams

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. - Seneca

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. - Alvin Toffler

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage. - Debasish Mridha

A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others. - Sandranil Biswas

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon

Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation. - At-Tirmidhī -أبو عيسى الترمذي

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind - Sri Chinmoy

Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win. - Debasish Mridha

I heard raindrops in the nightPattering upon my eaves,Like a pleasing lullabyEasing me back to sleep,Which I thought was odd a bit,For I awoke because of it. - Pepper Blair

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

The sinner is saved to be a saint by the Saviour. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation - Sunday Adelaja

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 - Harper's Index

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. - Sunday Adelaja

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice. - Compton Gage

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. - Bob Harrington

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it? - T.K. Naliaka

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. - Rebecca West

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. - Edward Chapin

Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life... - Oksana Rus

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. - Paul Eldridge

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place. - Ewan McGregor

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices. - Kim Hyesoon

Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd When I enter my home, Many homes seem to be waiting for me to give a shape to this life which is about to perish. - Suman Pokhrel

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown

The character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it... you don't realise it! - Deyth Banger

My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave. - Edward Dyer

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime’s floor - Munia Khan

Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books. - Robert Greene

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by as his only lasting achievement. - Max Ernst

You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened. - J. Richard Singleton

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. - Benjamin Franklin

You don't lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders. - Israelmore Ayivor

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all. - David Hepworth

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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

I won't lie—I don't care.And you should quit trying to deceive yourself because I can tell by the way you show no desire to do anything but complain about the issue that you don't honestly care either. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don't have to be let down. And yet again I am lowballed by the brokenness of the American cultural machine. - Vinnie Tesla

Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction. - Kirk J. Schneider

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. - Timothy Leary

Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn’t written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you Pride Yourself. - Joan Ambu

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work? - Robert A. Glover

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. - Alain de Botton

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. - John F. Kennedy

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. - Rick Warren

Morality is decided by the victors - Ian V Hamrick

Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed! - Natalya Vorobyova

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. - Hunter S. Thompson

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. - Robert Conquest

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street - Edward P. Jones

Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by - Anonymous

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran. - Alan Perlis

Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most. - Anthony Liccione

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. - Frédéric Bastiat

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves. - Benjamin Franklin

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

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Each time I see a happy face, I see two beautiful minds: the creator and the receiver of happiness. Happiness is not produced or received by non-beautiful minds. A sadistic soul cannot conceive, produce or receive happiness. It is strange to these kinds. - Prinx Maurice

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. - Albert Ellis

At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart. - Michael Bassey Johnson

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams

Peace is the byproduct of understanding in conjunction with the ability to agree or disagree in harmony - Lamont Renzo Bracy

Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul? - Andrew Davidson

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. - Lee Simonson

One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within. - A.D. Posey

It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The future of humankind hangs in the balance. - Compton Gage

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick

There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are. - Cindy Timmers

We are shaped by our thoughts ,but our thoughts are shaped by our destiny only. - Anuj Somany

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished. - Edward St. Aubyn

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. - George Gordon Byron

You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby. - Dawn Gluskin

A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know. - Matthew J. Kirby

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things! - Diana Wynne Jones

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. - Deborah Day

Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination. - Debasish Mridha

Instead of measuring yourself by your weight, measure yourself by your acts of kindness. - Elle Sommer

I’m looking for youin the bare corridor where my shadow is the only passerbyharmonizing an unsettling whisper: echoed through my chiming thoughtsFrom the poem 'Looking For You - Munia Khan

Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside. - Shannan Jacoby

Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner.

Each and every one of us has his or her calling. Your calling may spring out of your gifts, potentials, talents, passions or hobby. Every man has his or her own niche, where he can function optimally and this is where his true success lies. - Sesan Kareem

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male. - Christopher Moore

Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier

Good QUOTES have been often used by the bad people better than the others, but to their own best advantage only. - Anuj Somany

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. - Dag Hammarskjold

Your heartbeat is a lullaby that puts my loneliness to sleep. - Xue Yun

More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by - Seamus Heaney

Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view . . . is not enough; what matters even more is . . . adherence to high moral and aesthetic standards." — as quoted in "High Financier" by Niall Ferguson - Siegmund Warburg

She lies there in waitAnd feeling so hollow.Can't find love in this place,Left alone with her sorrow.All the promises you madeWhen you stood by her side were so brokenWhen you threw it away - Of Mice & Men

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. - John Muir

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary. - Amit Kalantri

You are condemn your by thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions. - Fredrich Von Bernhardi

We are advertis'd by our loving friends. - William Shakespeare

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. - Steven Magee

The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is to these two discoveries by that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Bradley

the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had - B.B. Taylor

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives - John Lennon

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. - Erich Fromm

The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping. - Radclyffe Hall

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. - General Douglas MacArthur

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. - L. M. Montgomery

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

Let us go where skins are rainbowsEnhanced by every hue.Where genders are cloudsWeightless and formless through.Let us go where creeds are starsIlluminating our view.Where men and women are oneAnd the in-between are true.Let us go where I am free to loveFor I cannot unlove you. - Kamand Kojouri

People can only be categorized into a good or bad person but not the human because being human is in itself a very coveted position which is not often possible to achieve by any individual. - Anuj Somany

Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done. - David Gergen

It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend. - Luis Marques

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way. - Joe Nickell

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. - Cicero

You change the world by changing your thought. You change the thought by changing your heart. - Debasish Mridha

I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon - Jenn Fagan

OvermodulationBy Charlotte M Liebel-FawlsYou're a cavity in my oasis,You're a porthole in my sea,You're a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me.You're an ocean in my wineglass,You're a Steinway on the beach,You're a captivating audience, an exciting Rembrandt,A Masterpiece. - Charlotte M. Liebel

Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish's speech reflected on her, as if she could take credit for some part of it, for him. - Michael Stein

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this... - Bobby Darin

Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness - Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani

Serce ludzkie bywa czasem tak zgłodniałe, że rzuca się nawet na kamienie, nie czując ich martwoty i chłodu. - Feliks Chwalibóg

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. - Raymond Loewy

By seeing the beauty of life, I attract them into my life. - Debasish Mridha

Remember! Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Byeeee! - Bill Cipher Gravity Falls tv show

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose. - Jared Matthew Kessler

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns. - W.B. Yeats

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. - Shannon L. Alder

When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything. - Debasish Mridha

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". - Alain de Botton

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government. - Dave Champion

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. - Amos Tversky

All tradgedies are finish'd by death. All comedies are ended by marriage.

You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Patty Hansen

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day. - Robert De Niro

Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots. - C.Z. Hazard

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

We are ruled by desire of having ultimate power. - litymunshi

I hate the sound of the world outside. Because everybody here can't wait to come and say goodbye... - Dulara Perera

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean

If you walk in the light by faith, there is no fear for darkness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not! - Jackie Hill

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium. - Marie Curie

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge - Graham McNeill

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........ - Steve Merrick

Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen! - Steve Maraboli

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye. - Ellen DeGeneres

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change. - David Cameron

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

That which is cool is driven by the soul. - A.D. Posey

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. - John Locke