Quotation Explorer - 'Ed'

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. - George Bernard Shaw

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. - Randy K. Milholland

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame. - Edward Ugel

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job. - Criss Jami

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose. - P.G. Wodehouse

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death. - Thomas Nagel

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it. - David Markson

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ. - Billy Graham

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

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. - Charles de Gaulle

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. - Frank Herbert

So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears. - Marcel Proust

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. - Edmund Spenser

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. - James Joyce

I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though our vein's to be someone/something much more than human. - sequence kye kenneth young

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. - Terence McKenna

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want. - Terraine Francois

You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does. - Shelena Shorts

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an idiot's brain remembered wordsHang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you used violence to achieve "peace"; what did you achieve ? -Supressed violence! - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

She isn’t a dream... I set her body free but I have caged her mind inside my universe and uplifted her soul beyond that - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. - David Brooks

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." - Andy Warhol

Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."George braced for Kelly's next words."Then I think you're a girl too! - Alex Gino

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality. - Roshan Sharma

All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense. - Cal Newport

There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone. - L. Ron Hubbard

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. - Isaiah Berlin

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word. - Kedar Joshi

Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breaths mingle as one. Turn liquid for me. Only for me. Bury your essence inside of my soul. - Christina Lee

nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands. - S.A.R.K.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - William Shakespeare

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us. - Helen Keller

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about. - Po Bronson

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.-Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth. - Karen Salmansohn

How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic? - Michael Grant, Katherine Applegate

Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life. - Debasish Mridha

What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret. - Steve Goodier

Measure your success by the ladder you set for yourself and not on what somebody achieved or done! - Unarine Ramaru

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. - Mark Twain

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. - Paul Sweeney

To be successful, you need to do two things:1. Condition your hair,2. Do the same with your mind. - Manhardeep Singh Ahluwalia

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. - Richard Bach

No need to be worry what will happened in the future, just live it. - Ainun Annisa

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. - Anthony Liccione

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. - Lawrence Durrell

Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said. - Madeleine L'Engle

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest. - R.J. Palacio

Don’t make any plans, because there is only one plan which really works and that is not even devised by you - Alok Jagawat

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. - Johnny Depp

PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. - Ambrose Bierce

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats. - Robert Lynd

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. - Christopher Fry

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. - Edward Abbey

People with fewer economic resources have very limited opportunity for joining the global internet economy. - Arzak Khan

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here." - Ambrose Bierce

Freedom is a clear conscience. - Periander

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. - Vince Lombardi

This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the ‘real’ thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results). - Dada Bhagwan

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams. - Sanhita Baruah

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. - Jane Austen

We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally. - Dominic Riccitello

No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found. - Tanya Masse

The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on - Sunday Adelaja

Lila backed away toward the curtain. "Do you just... stand here until I need you?"The woman smiled and dug a volume from a pocket. "I have a book.""Let me guess, a religious text?""Actually," said Ister, perching on the low couch, "it's about pirates."Lila smiled. - V.E. Schwab

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them. - Raheel Farooq

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. - Ewan McGregor

cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276 - Calvin C. Jillson

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. - John Adams

We're eye doctors.""What's something about the eye that most people don't realize?""The eye doesn't see. The brain sees. The eye just transmits. So what we see isn't only determined by what comes through the eyes. What we see is affected by our memories, our feelings, and by what we've seen before. - Brandon Stanton

She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved. - Robert M. Drake

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people. - Amit Kalantri

We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn."Arthur," I say.The car doesn't yield."Arthur," I say.He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper."Arthur, our turn was back there. - Peter Canning

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living. - Swami Dhyan Giten

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. - Edna Ferber

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

- Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy de maravilla.- ¿Hasta el punto de llegar a tocar el cielo con un dedo?- No, así no.- ¿Ah, no?- Mucho más. Al menos tres metros sobre el cielo. - Federico Moccia

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is unique. - Debasish Mridha

A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. - Rory Sutherland

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness. - Amit Kalantri

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life - Aristotle

You are loved, and you are worthy! Remember your wholeness. Within you is the spark of the Divine. Let go of negative self-talk and let LOVE heal you. - Angie karan

Just when I was about to be carried away;And the vision was turning grey. - Siddharth Bhatnagar

That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. - Joss Whedon

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves - Joseph Campbell

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings. - Jonah Goldberg

Ain’t I your man? he persisted.Yeah, Ellis, you’re my man. Her lips quaked as she said it. - Tracy Winegar

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. - Peter Drucker

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. - Virgil

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings. - Dee Williams

There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe. - Charles Bukowski

True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again. - Terry Lander

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for. - skint foodie

The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has - Duncan Tallam

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth - Carl Henegan

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. - John Waters

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. - Steve Maraboli

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it. - Unarine Ramaru

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

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead

See the mountains kiss high HeavenAnd the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgivenIf it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth,And the moonbeams kiss the sea -What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance. - Emily Thorne

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master. - Richard G. Scott

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist. - Ashly Lorenzana

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. - John Quincy Adams

I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives. - V.C. Andrews

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. - Richard M. Rorty

Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter. - Dawna Markova

It is impossible to satisfy self. Self always wants more and more. It is an ugly monster that will devour you if you don't devour it. Stop feeding it an watch the pressure be released. Self deprivation is much more fulfilling than self gratification. Who Knew? - Randa Manning-Johnson

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. - Pradeepa Pandiyan

Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic.They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort - Mouloud Benzadi

Don't talk with half minded people who really destroy your mind slowly. - Kaushal Patel

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Pride cannot be hidden just like humility cannot be faked. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather

You don't want to just get by, you want to get ahead. You don't want to settle for mediocrity, you want to strive for greatness. You don't want to get lost in the crowd, you want to stand out and lead the charge. Pushing the limits of your potential isn't easy, but it will be worth it. - Michael J. Schiemer

Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha). - Dada Bhagwan

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. - Isabel Paterson

Every woman is beautiful. Every woman is amazing because every woman’s heart is filled with the motherly instinct of unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be determined to fulfill your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always ends up having a romantic gloss about it - no matter how I try to avoid it. - Robert Frank

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. - Todd Stocker

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad. - Marcel Proust

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception. - Ken Poirot

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child. - Bill Maher

Insecurities make girls believe they don't have voices and they can't say what they need to say. The more they know the importance of their voices and gain confidence, the better chances of greatness the world will have. - Paballo Seipei

The world is rounded globe, so any problem you ignite or ignited will one day come to your home, unless you contribute its solution - Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.

A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli

I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

World Peace will be achieved the day Humans, embrace The Power of Love and forgo their Love of Power. - Ali Fissam

I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium! - C. JoyBell C.

Humans need fantasy to be human. - Terry Pratchett

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. - Confucius

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people. - Anasazi Foundation

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded? - Victor Borge

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

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science. - Albert Einstein

God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way! - Elizabeth George

Dont let her clothes down for your sexual need. - Muhammad Saqib

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor - Herman Melville

There's wickedness, dark as night. There are things that are wicked and if you touch them, they know you. They know where to find you now. - Knock Knock - S.P. Miskowski

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself. - Steven Wright

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science. - Philip Abelson

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need. - Aaron Lauritsen

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. - Charles M. Schulz

We survived life by adaptation to the changing situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom - Sunday Adelaja

I find something incredibly sexy about a man who pursues love with care, it's like he knows the feeling of heartbreak; so he's gentle with whom he gives his heart too. - Nikki Rowe

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that? - Michel Templet

Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. - Thomas Fuller

[Kagura is doing laundry and tries to wring out Kyou's shirt causing it to rip in two ]Kyo Sohma: Tell me what I think just happened didn't just happen Kagura: My love !Kyo Sohma: My shirt! - Natsuki Takaya

Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future - Mohammed Sekouty

The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~ - Sameh Elsayed

In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood. - Emma Koenig

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness - Steven Magee

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives. - Giacomo Casanova

The history of our time must be well-captured and documented. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime. - Pratik Akkawar

You can have what you wish in the sacred time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song - Christine M. Knight

I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying. - RVM

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain. - Ken Scott

Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight. - Richelle E. Goodrich

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? - Ashly Lorenzana

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life. - Auliq Ice

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. - Christos Tsiolkas

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.

Knowledge only becomes wisdom, when it is utilized and produces fruit that makes it possibleto reach the goals that God has set. - Sunday Adelaja

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up. - Shannon L. Alder

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday. - Ben Harper

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative. - S. Usher Evans

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. - Stephen Jay Gould

saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life. - Annoymous

We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace. - Paul Bamikole

Where we go is not determined by where we want to go. - Marty Rubin

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. - Marguerite de Valois

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either righteous or unrighteous, excellent or Impaired, and in no time become what God had ordained. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived. - Jp Delaney

In the difficult moments believe in yourself.Believe that you are whole, perfect, powerful, and blessed. - Debasish Mridha

We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it. - Jean-Claude Juncker

When the Magician waves his magic wand to help you… rest assured he does it because you deserve it. - Sameh Elsayed

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

It is not enough to protect the source of the light; the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them becausethey need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son. - Bree Despain

Unlimited knowledge, limited time. - Tanveer Hossain Mullick

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. - Robert Sexton

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done. - Orrin Woodward

Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and at times inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship. - Christopher Earley

Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it. - Marty Rubin

I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal

Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life. - Sunday Adelaja

sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again - Christine Minasian

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda. - Carl Hiaasen

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed. - Thomas Cahill

God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior - Timothy J. Keller

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first. - A.E. Samaan

If we all want the peace and flooded the world with love, peace will wait for us at the shore. - Debasish Mridha

Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. - Mehmet Murat ildan

He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voice, a wide smile, with fear and doubt freezing over his core. The truth was the best route, but the truth could always be costly... another truth. A sad truth. - Hubert Martin

Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser. - Syed Ahmad Fathi

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it. - Louis Agassiz

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

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. - Al Gore

Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future. -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author - Kathleen Papajohn

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope. - Auliq-Ice

Rocket science only needed when we build rocket. - Desmond Hong

ROR: Return on Relationship™, #RonR… simply put the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship. ROI is simple $’s and cents. ROR is the value (both perceived and real) that will accrue over time through connection, trust, loyalty, recommendations and sharing. - Ted Rubin

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am. - Julianne Donaldson

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it. - Kamand Kojouri

Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair. - W.B. Yeats

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain

The grace of persistent is the sure way to succeed. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. - Henry David Thoreau

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. - Martin Luther

Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from. - Adam Smith

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb. - George W. Bush

Make your footsteps count; let your footprints be counted - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.' - Julian of Norwich

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. - Mark Twain

The emergence of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is where Autism was back in the 1970's and very few children had the condition. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity must not be allowed to explode into the new epidemic that Autism has become. - Steven Magee

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it - Alfred Lansing

Life gives daily lessons ... Not to study but to understand - Mohammed Sekouty

Every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment to moment on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for. - Thornton Wilder

God gifted a Zoo; with a paralyzed care taker. - Durgesh Satpathy

When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. (Une femme peut en cacher une autre") - Erik Pevernagie

Get off the Medical System and onto the Self Care System - Nina Leavins

And when I saw you kissing that girlMy heart, it shattered and my eyes, they wateredAnd when I tried to speak, I stuttered - Kate Nash

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened. - Ellen J. Barrier

Jerks aren't heartbreakers there just fools with good taste. - Sarah Enchanted

Knowledge is life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You were not just blessed for yourself,your were blessed to be a blessing toothers. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'. - Faraaz Kazi

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. - A.E. Samaan

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. - Marilynne Robinson

God has given you all you need to fight against the enemy. - Jim George

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged. - irene fantopoulos

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me. - Colleen Wainwright

Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge - John L. Parker Jr.

Life will only have a meaning once you've achieved to find your true passion and love within the limitless boundaries of destiny - Callum Illman

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things. - Rick Yancey

I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family - David Sedaris

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories - Prairie Empire

Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to. - Anonymous

God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate. - Bashir F. Biodun

Success is the moment you realize that all you failed at created the masterpiece of your life.~ - Bluenscottish

When you have given your best, you are left with no regrets. - Abdul Mueed

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected. - Talal Asad

He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate and crazy don't weigh anything. - Barry Lyga

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Even if you had committed a murder, I would have committed one too just so I could be with you… Even if you could not speak, see, hear or walk... I would have always, do you hear me, always stayed with you! - Rom Amor

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. - Shannon L. Alder

Be careful who you allow into your bed, and more importantly your heart. - Ann Marie Frohoff

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. - Edgar Allan Poe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again. - Captain Elwin Hartley Edwards

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

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. - Edgar Watson Howe

the sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom - Bhagat Singh

Somebody once asked me if I made a lot of money, I said I made enough. He then asked why do it, if I'm only making enough. And I said I don't do what I do to be rich in my wallet, I do what I do to be rich in life. - Lisa Abu-Bakr

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged! - Funny, Humor, Screenwri

Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong. - Hasse Jerner

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present. - Jaeda DeWalt

Let the dawn of the New Year’s first day be the beginning of a new era with an invisible Almighty’s blessings showered on everyone to be always true to their own first version. - Anuj Somany

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own. - Orson Scott Card

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. - Bertrand Russell

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom... - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance. - Dean Koontz

Grace is that turning point from feeling hopeless to becoming empowered. - Deborah Brodie

I moved from the holy land (Israel) to the land of opportunities (USA) - Batya Maman - Sabag

What others will think? has killed the most dreams,Living the mainstream has never been the mainstream,Free people know how to live without remorse,They know ships aren’t meant to stay at shores. - Sahil Sachdeva

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God. - Radhe Maa

It's about "Moments," not Milestones. - Ted Rubin

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. - Voltaire

Everything God created is good, with the possible exception of cats. - Michael Wittmer

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.""Yes.""It's sort of what we have instead of God.""Some people have God," I said. "Quite a lot.""He never worked very well with me. - Ernest Hemingway

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind. - Debasish Mridha

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. - Anonymous

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. - Ivan Pavlov

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room. - Jeph Jacques

Indoctrination is premeditated murder of the mind - Andrea L'Artiste

I had lived my life before in accordance with the poverty and itinerancy of my childhood, sliding in and out of other people’s leases, never expecting to stay very long and tolerating circumstances that strike me now as completely absurd. - Kathleen Alcott

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

When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people. - Steven Magee

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image. - Praying Medic

And I swear, she tasted like the sun. - S. Gregory

The moment that all these myths were brought together in so-called 'holy books'has -without any doubt- to be seenas the most disastrous point in timein the history of mankind.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The enlightened worry less than others,quarrel less than others,fight less than others,transgress less than others;care more than others,give more than others,and love more than others. - Matshona Dhliwayo

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.( on T.S.Eliot) - Jeanette Winterson

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man - Leonard Cohen

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin

The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. - G. K. Chesterton

Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish. - Elsie Love

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. - Jack Vance

Getting an education is the easiest when you love to learn. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. - Joss Whedon

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction. - Mary McDermott Shideler

It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious. - Vee Hoffman

Faith is the best ingredient for miracles. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. - Waiter Rant

"The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. - Ashley Montague

Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.

All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. - Bob Proctor

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it. - Kris Rafferty

Seek the sacredness of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized. - Lama Surya Das

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. - Jeffrey D. Sachs

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. - Mary Wollstonecraft

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. - Napoleon Hill

God created sex. Priests created marriage. - Voltaire

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk. Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice. - Saru Singhal

By shaping the menus we pick from, technology hijacks the way we perceive our choices and replaces them with new ones. But the closer we pay attention to the options we’re given, the more we’ll notice when they don’t actually align with our true needs. - Tristan Harris

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed. - Sandra Chami Kassis

If you quit pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing. - Kamil Ali

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures - John Ruskin

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. - Tallulah Bankhead

This is what Helen has learned: it is possible to be so tired you cannot reach for the sky, you cannot breathe. You can’t even talk. You can’t pick up the phone. You can’t do a dish or dance or cook or do up your own zipper. - Lisa Moore

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance! - Manuela George-Izunwa

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

If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions has been felt. - Magith Noohukhan

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You have unbounded, unlimited wealth and that if your love. Spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can, as often as you can. You will find that you are getting richer every day. - Debasish Mridha

There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it run its course; it will then disappear on its own. - Baltasar Gracián

For Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening - Steven Aitchison

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. - Jesus/John

I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed. - Sharon Nir

He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her? – but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one would know her unless she herself willed it. And there was nothing quite like the will he sensed in her now. - Amanda Coplin

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing

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

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life. - Derric Yuh Ndim

If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposedly fake reality - Menna Anwar

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right. - Mark Twain

There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love. - Sesan Kareem

Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want (CJB, Proverbs 21:5). - H.W. Charles

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed. - Srishtie

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a chance to say good-bye. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. - Lev Grossman

I owe most of my wisdom to the problems I was gifted. - Wordions

What's the difference between the window manager and the computer club window manager? Well, one's supported software and the other isn't. Your guess is as good as mine.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are. - Cory Duchesne

And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. - James Baldwin

Compassion and kindness it turned out, was good for your health. - James R Doty

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure). - Steven K. Scott

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions? - Ramana Pemmaraju

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. - Stefan Molyneux

Here's some words of wisdom sprayed painted on a wall in Berkeley:

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. - Anonymous

‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best. - Jestoni Revealed

He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well. - Don Sutton

You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life. - Kamand Kojouri

If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone. - M.D. Arnold

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom. - Nancy Farmer

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. - Thucydides

O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude. - Debasish Mridha

He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke

love the people God gave you because He will need them back one day. - Becky Kinder

Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now? - Rob Liano

Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, "I'm still here." So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Your soul is a paradise. Where gods fell in love with the demons. Where darkness and light fought, for each other's place creating an unending chaos. You are the beginning of everything, that my mind failed to incarnate. - Akshay Vasu

If the sales & marketing function is all about teamwork called ‘WE’, then how everyone in an organisation can be asked to achieve individual target and compel each one to say I. - Anuj Somany

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. - Jalaluddin Rumi

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. - Christopher Hitchens

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse - Steve Aylett

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. - Jane Goodall

...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC) - - Deborah Harkness

Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has. - Michael Bassey Johnson

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored. - Kayla McClurg

If you want the windows of opportunity be opened for you, Do not neglect to create a goal. - Dariush Youkhaneh

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? - Hermann Hesse

I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet! - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was never hurt by loss as much as I was hurt by the people who tried to make me feel like a winner,they made it worse - Mhd.Ferzat Alchayah

The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge. - Debasish Mridha

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. - Louis C.K.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Robert Louis Stevenson

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally. - Wendy Shalit

But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken on his craft, his magic. - Anne Sexton

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? - Margaret Cho

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - M Dupree

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us. - Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman

That was when it became abundantly clear to me that simply eating in a way that avoided hurting others was never going to be enough if my eating habits were still hurting me. - Jasmin Singer

Some of us read the Bible to quote God’s words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched – God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose. - Sunday Adelaja

Your mind is everything. If you can control it, you can be the King of the universe. - Sharfaraz Ahmed

The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time. - Charles Krauthammer

In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego. - Carol Anthony

Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire. It is a mark of folly to make the same mistake twice. - karan godara

Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat... - Virginia Alison

I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore. - R.C. Sproul

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. - Marlene Dietrich

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you!" I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.It looked like someone had beaten me to it. - Cleo Coyle

When we focus on winning the battle for material gains,we end up losing spiritual war.If we had a better self of ethics we would be better prepared to deal with the complicated world in which we find ourselves. - David V. Gaggin

We tend to think that it’s up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn’t ever work, and for the following reason:If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know? - Amanda Butterworth

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes. - Gaiman, Neil

We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel. - John Paul Warren

For centuries we have been ripped apart by the hands of others as well as ourselves. Our personalities have been conditioned to become disconnected from our most Earthly ancestral knowledge. The days of disconnectedness are over. We must begin anew. - Dacha Avelin

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - Bertrand Russell

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. - Sir Francis Bacon

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. - Samuel McChord Crothers

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. - Niccolò Machiavelli

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny. - George Saunders

I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead! - Emily Brontë

Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script - Keiko Nobumoto

There are different ways to take over the World. But there is only one way to take over the Universe and that’s through meditation. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see. - Deyth Banger

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas Moore

Belief in a false reality about another person first manifests in the creators mind by making everything look like proof, then manifests in other people to become reality. Unless noticed. - L.H.

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch. - Vern Rustsala

In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. - Will Rogers

Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear. - Laura Davis

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. - Edgar Allan Poe

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute! - CL Bennett

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. - Woody Allen

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman. - Honore de Balzac

Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of…you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect. - Joanna Newsom

once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end. - Barbara Brown Taylor

If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing. - A.E. van Vogt

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. - Dennis Lehane

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul."At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner

You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice. - Robin Roberts

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. - Parwez Musharraf

It’s always nice to hear that you’re appreciated for all that you do. - Auliq Ice

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone - Charles Bukowski

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return. - Stephen Schwartz

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. - Tennessee Williams

It is necessary for the future scientists interested in the field of Neurotheology, to have a bit naïve approach towards the whole idea of God and religion beyond the conventional labels of religion and atheism. - Abhijit Naskar

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Learning how to forgive helps us grow spiritually because it acknowledges only God truly controls our destiny. - Karim Camara

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing . - Epicurus

We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained"-Boys of the Fatherless- - David C. Riggins

The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism. - Dada Bhagwan

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. - Claude M. Bristol

Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius

I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal. - Anna M. Aquino

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. - Don Miguel Ruiz

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen") - Timothy S. Lane

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. - H. L. Mencken

Unlike every other farang in Thailand, I never did get involved with bargirls. I was looking for a partner. Not a professional. - John Cameron Smith

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. - Kedar Joshi

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

The blessedness of being little!!! - William Shakespeare

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. - Thomas Pynchon

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what’s right rather than what’s in it for you. - Tanya Masse

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. - Maya Angelou

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. - Don Roff

Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice. - Dillon Burroughs

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones - Vinay Kumar

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met. - David Sedaris

Education is the transportation of the mind. - Debasish Mridha

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. - Edward Abbey

Accept, Acknowledge and Awake. - Aditya Ajmera

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation. - Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Some people live such boring lives; it’s Black & White, so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some Blue, some Green, some Red. - RVM

People sccumb to injuries and i sccumbed to my thoughts - irrfan ishaq

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening. - Erin Fall Haskell

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I was telling her, I Love her. She amazed to listen, she didn't believe because feelings are more important from telling. - Waleed Uz Zaman Khan

Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/ - Muhammed Bhikha

A comedy that has been divide in two can never be Restored - Jun Mochizuki

I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I am making an exception to my habitual reserve. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. - Eraldo Banovac

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.{Commenting about 's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} Jean-Baptiste Biot - Louis Pasteur

To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future. - Auliq Ice

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself - Richard Feynman

Perhaps these are inward irritations always produced by love: the acutely sensitive nerves of intimacy: the haunting fear that all may not go well. - Anthony Powell

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw

A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect? - Dada Bhagwan

A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice. - Newton Gatambia

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. - Thomas Carlyle

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part. - Tina Fey

I am not moved by what I see.; I am moved by what I believe. What I do believe is greater, stronger and mightier than what I have my eyes on. Deep in my heart I do believe, I shall overcome. - Israelmore Ayivor

Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth... - Virginia Alison

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age - Barbara Leaming

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. - John Ruskin

You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur

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

... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse. - John Katzenbach

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden

Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy. - Eric J. Martindale

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. - Nicole Krauss

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives. - Annie Dillard

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state. - Noah Webster

You are rich if your heart is filled with an abundance of love. - Debasish Mridha

Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is the heart of life. Flowers have fear of being withered while Thorns have not fear of being withered. - M.K. Bhutta

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I now have no time to be tired.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

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

I am satisfied-For the peace that has graciously engulfed my tender heart.I am home-Because of the abundance of love that I have given myself.I am enlightened-For the journey I have embarked in knowing my higher self.I am complete-Because I now realize that I was always whole. - Karen A. Baquiran

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere". - Arthur Schopenhauer

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say. - Kami Garcia

Since when did Christians started fearing ghost, witches and wizards, demons, sicknesses and Death ? Don't you get it? these things are far below you. What did Jesus die for ? ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD - Mary Tornyenyor

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. - Fred Allen

All I Ever Loved And TransformedBy My Loving Soul ... God,I Really Do Hope ... No One Is Ever GoingTo Love, It.P.C.M. Hermans - Petra Hermans

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. - Vincent Van Gogh

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

God will walk beside us in hell if he wants us to remember the type of the people he needs us to help. Our suffering is our training for the hardest job he could ask us to do. - Shannon L. Alder

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. - Saul Bellow

Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen. - Debasish Mridha

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if. - Avakruth

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. - Erich Fromm

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

I'll always stay connected with Apple.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. - Alexander Hamilton

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?""We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained - Philip Palmer

We all have a purpose, or calling. If it's greed, hence, lies the wrong path. - David Fredette

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. - Gene Wolfe

A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized. - Todd Stocker

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

I just wanted your time and it was the only thing i never got... - shivangi lavaniya

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. - Edgar Allan Poe

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it. - Turcois Ominek

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. - Albert Einstein

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. - Benjamin Franklin

The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us. - Clifford Stoll

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! - Vikram Roy

So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision. - Toni Sorenson

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man - José Ortega y Gasset

Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance. - Ragnar Redbeard

Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans. - Francesca Marciano

Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you? - Janie Chang

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill

If an employee could see as what quality of his is being praised by the employer, he would never be able to brag about his professional growth & ever boast of his long tenure spent in that organisation. - Anuj Somany

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. - Richard Dawkins

So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don't try to distort it by your so-called education. Try to understand Kṛiṣṇa as He is saying. Then you will be benefited. Your life will be successful. - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. - Audre Lorde