Quotation Explorer - 'Not'

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning. - Debasish Mridha

Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you. - Sunday Adelaja

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. - Thomas Carlyle

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure. - Amit Kalantri

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish. - Christine Morgan

In life, it is not the amount of friends we keep that matters but the amount of change they impart in your life that matters. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny. - Shayne Azad

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked. - Sara Pennypacker

When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There are some things you just don't say...not even in a school! - X

Don't let the anger control you turning you into someone whom you are not. - http www.thecounsellingparadigm.sg

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing great was ever created without a great dream. - Debasish Mridha

It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes. - Auliq Ice

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere! - Mehmet Murat ildan

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does - Torquato Tasso

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key. - C. JoyBell C.

I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. - Minda Webber

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. - Oswald Chambers

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

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. - Jonathan Feldman

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person. - Philip Yancey

You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures. - T.W. Brown

Nothing goes with you except the love that you gave away. - Debasish Mridha

One Lifetime is not enough. - Maurice Northmore

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. - Jorge Luis Borges

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality. - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

One day in your prayers, maybe once a month or week, lie back and thank God for the things not given to you. - Rajwant Singh Bachhal

Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside. - Eve Juurik

Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master - Sunday Adelaja

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. - Mitch Albom

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt. - Thomas Carlyle

Be with people for whom your empty pocket does not matter. - Pratik Akkawar

All you have to do is to open your mind, do not be too hopeless instead stand with your feets and have faith that all things will be alright. - Abigail Lazo

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two. - Edmund S. Morgan

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art. - Ashraf Saharudin

I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. - Anna Quindlen

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

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners. - Gustavo Gus Larsen

Roger said, 'I don't know about having a shrink around all the time. Are you analyzing me right now?'Sophie rolled her eyes. 'How original. No, I'm not analyzing you. It'd take a whole team of shrinks to figure out your crazy ass, and I simply don't have the time or energy. - Jennifer Lane

Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy. - Jane Bled

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens. - Sunday Adelaja

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self. - Søren Kierkegaard

Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook - Nizar Qabbani

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. - Dejan Stojanovic

True love comes from the heart and not from the words. - Auliq Ice

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp. - Amit Kalantri

I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am. - C. JoyBell C.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide. - Alexander MacLaren

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. - Jewish Proverb

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

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement. - Mohith Agadi

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. - Mary Shelley

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same. - Nikki Rowe

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love - Milan Kundera

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. - Leonardo da Vinci

Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change. - Morgan Housel

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. - William Hazlitt

The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with what I eat. - Mindy Kaling

Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision. - Debasish Mridha

A good pastor knows how to trust people and how to give them authority to fulfill all kinds of tasks. He tries to make himself unnoticed and unnecessary. Don’t be indispensable! - Pastor Adelaja Sunday

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. - Kay Ryan

Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes. - Debasish Mridha

One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger. - Hui-Neng

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell

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

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. - Adrian Rogers

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. - Jack Kerouac

When mankind is drowning in a multitude of problems, swimming is not the solution. The solution is reaching higher ground which is the ultimate salvation. - Debasish Mridha

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it. - Robert Jensen

I never dreamed the sea so deep,The earth so dark; so long my sleep,I have become another child.I wake to see the world go wild. - Allen Ginsberg

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. - Oscar Wilde

I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.

I fought with all I had, a battle led by heart and faith. I fought till I had nothing. How do you restart without a heart or faith?? Now lost, broken and with no direction, I often wonder if I should have quit , while I had something left in the tank. - Terry Houchin

It’s such a gift when another person knows you through and through, brings out your best, and turns a blind eye to your worst. - Kathy Kalina

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. - Dave Barry

It's not about what we go through in life, but how we come out shining on the other side that makes us who we are. - Samuel B Watson

Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead. - Nikki Rowe

Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks. - Khurshed Batliwala

You love someone, not because of what they are, but because of how you feel about them. - Debasish Mridha

Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love. - Debasish Mridha

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.

We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. - Benjamin Franklin

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible. - Thylias Moss

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul - Harold Klemp

I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go. - Tina J. Richardson

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. - Jorge Luis Borges

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself. - Paul Hoffmann

Stop using, "easier said than done", as an excuse to not change! Bringing your life to a higher level is challenging; get over it and rise to the challenge! - Steve Maraboli

No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God) - Reza Aslan

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another. - Abhijit Naskar

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time. - Sanober Khan

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime - Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago. - Nic Sheff

Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls. - Basith

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not. - Kurt Cobain

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need... but not every man's greed.

Happy people think about how to help others and not how to get from others. - Debasish Mridha

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living. - Jeanette Winterson

Life is not measured by its length but by its contents. - Debasish Mridha

Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It’s like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing. - J.L. McCoy

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. - William James

The White Hand did not fry all the brain. He fried somefrom the right hemisphere and some from the left. Theremaining brain, The White Hand wrapped in tin foil,carefully. Tomorrow is, after all, another day, and food should be keptin storage so it won’t go bad. - Siberian Hellhole by Michael Mulvihill

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

What other people think about me is not my business. - Michael J. Fox

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us. - Auliq-Ice

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! - C.G. Jung

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. - Carl Sagan

Do not forget to be good to yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free! - Anton Krotov

He is embraced by nature, which is waiting, ultimately, to receive him, to re-organize his atoms into another shape. - M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it. - Emily Thorne

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. - Tiffany Madison

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

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies. - Gerard de Marigny

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

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - Joel Hawes

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love! - C. JoyBell C.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. - Albert Camus

People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all. - Richie Norton

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Another breath, left to translate - Susan Voth

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind. - Pamela Dean

God is not a Christian. - Desmond Tutu

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. - Michel de Montaigne

[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day. - Woody Allen

Control and manipulation are not love; the outcome is a life of imprisonment ultimately leading to deep-rooted feelings of resentment. - Ken Poirot

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. - Thomas Jefferson

Will you miss him Holly? he asked suddenly. [...] No, she said. I will not miss him. But her eyes told the real story. - Eoin Colfer

I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die. - Jim Baen

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior? - Dada Bhagwan

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... - Sinclair Lewis

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without. - Shannon L. Alder

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. - Max Strom

Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny. - oladosu feyikogbon

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

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'. - Ogwo David Emenike

You cannot till this year’s land using last year’s sun. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration. - Thomas Hardy

Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from. - Faraaz Kazi

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock. - Jan Jansen

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. - John Lyman

When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway. - Donna Lynn Hope

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. - Ayn Rand

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind. - Steven Magee

Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones. - Hiba Fatima Ahmad

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing. - James Clavell

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent. - Bashō Matsuo

You did not invent marriage. God did. - Ken Ham

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. - Thomas Carlyle

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common. - Richelle E. Goodrich

importance of light cannot be understood if there is no darkness - Hrishikesh J C

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind. - Remez Sasson

It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie,The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye. - Erin Hanson

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. - Euripides

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have. - Teresa DeCicco

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire

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

You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option. - Bob Proctor

It is not the soul that speaks its mind, but the mind that speaks its soul, that will be heard. - Andrew Sabitov

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable. - Jessamyn West

Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement; intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection. - Baltasar Gracián

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity - Bill Bryson

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. - Anonymous

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained. - Donna Lynn Hope

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can't even see them! I therefore believe that it's not signs people should be asking God for; but you should be asking God for Sight! - C. JoyBell C.

We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. - David Assael

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. - Jonathan Haidt

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not.... - Israelmore Ayivor

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

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. - Bill Gates

father taught me that the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If it’s not one of those three, it’s best not to say it - Honor Raconteur Deepwoods

From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past - Munia Khan

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

President is a curious term for the American head of state, because "presiding" in any meaningful sense is the one thing the president of the United States does not do. - Garrett Epps

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself. - Maureen Moss

We are not our own light. - Nicolas Malebranche

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - James A. Garfield

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. - Jesse Jackson

Find me a vast carpet of forget-me-nots spilling down a hillside, and take me there. Let me rest among the brightest, clearest blue under heaven.

You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively. If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty. - Compton Gage

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence. - Jalaluddin Rumi

People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall. - Naveed A. Khan

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. - Rainer Maria Rilke

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. - Jay Leno

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten-thousand stars how not to dance...

A good relationship is not a refuge from your problems, but an oasis where you can grow better as a person. - Shon Mehta

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. - Rush Limbaugh

Avoid and ignore the idiots who try to bring you down in life; they are not worth your time. - Ken Poirot

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. - Henry David Thoreau

If you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black. - Bill Knott

Nothing is wrong if you walk alone . - Lailah Gifty Akita

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go. - Oswald Chambers

Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable. - Ellen J. Barrier

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work. - Dominic Riccitello

What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be? Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to... - Sanhita Baruah

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. - Will Durant

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me. - Anna N.

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] - Thurgood Marshall

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts. - Santosh Kalwar

I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love. - Stephanie Grace Whitson

People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same. - Kevin Hart

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht

My imaginary pal up there, Mr. NOT, tells me it's my dog-damn ism to kick your illusory he-man's ass. Now, what do you say to that? - Fakeer Ishavardas

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. - Cecil Day-Lewis

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. - Oscar Wilde

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

The reality is that there is nothing so vulgar left in human experience for which some educator from some institution cannot be found to justify it. In the name of literary license, anything passes off as permissible.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps. - Joyce Rachelle

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. - E.M. Forster

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. - M.F. Moonzajer

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. - Ambrose Bierce

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words. - William Shakespeare

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot change any world unless you become a vital part of the changing. - Munia Khan

Ultimate Truth- "You are not born with success, but you've born to success - Sivaprakash Sidhu

In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw his eyes. He was not daunted in the least. - V.S. Carnes

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. - John Viscount Morley

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world... - Hugh Elliott

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry? - Evelyn Lielou Colon

Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words. - Carla Gipson Lizana

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't makeit through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'llmake a door. Something terrific will come no matter how darkthe present. - Joan Rivers

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. - Derek Barton

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. - Scott Westerfeld

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson

No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)

~We may encounter many defeats but we must NOT be defeated~ - Maya Angelou

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. - Amy Vanderbilt

Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha

Not everything happens for a reason; we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People who kill time are themselves not alive. - Amit Abraham

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference. - Molly Friedenfeld

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in. - Steve Maraboli

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness. - Matthew Kelly

Mates such as they must stand by one another - Mary Grant Bruce

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. - Shannon L. Alder

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure. - A. J. Gallant

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. - Bobbe Sommer

History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it looked blooming in the field. The color and fragrance - the true reality - or the flowers are gone. - Rex Alan Smith

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. - Romain Gary

I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence. - Vironika Tugaleva

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough. - Lynsay Sands

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. - Idries Shah

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself - Gautama Buddha

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. - Lawrence Durrell

I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids. - Sabrina Vourvoulias

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton

I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of devastatingly pithy witticisms. - R. Stevens

What use is of an eye to be open if it's not there to see! Shouldn't it rather be gauged or closed for it deceives? - Mapogo Chuene

Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now. - Zax Vagen

The odds of finding the one you truly love above all else, is about 1 in 4 billion. The odds that the person you love, loves you back... don't even dream about it, it's not going to happen. Most couples today do not revolve around real love. - Dylan West

Since there is no way to Live after you die, why not Live Now! - - RVM

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile. - Gabriel García Márquez

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. - Calvin Coolidge

It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results. - Praveen Chenna

It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life. - George Gordon Byron

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! - Henry David Thoreau

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise. - Auliq-Ice

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters. - Philip Roth

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas a Kempis

Do not get discourage in pursuit of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Politics is not about divide the nation in the name of religion/cast but to defend the country & represent it in international forums. - Debasish Sinha

There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign. - Vasily Grossman

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. - Henry Kissinger

Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment. - Cardwell C. Nuckols

Money doesnt buy happiness of a lady. I mean a real lady not aSLUT. TRUST,LOVE and treating her like a queen is all that counts,nomatter what you have. - Tumelo Molotsi

the past is the pastthink about now. not the past.we need to move on. - JRyO

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share. - Nikki Rowe

Life cannot purely rely on thoughts. Action is required with better sence of humour. - Kishore Bansal

In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.) - Charles de Leusse

The Real Life from the Heart is not to Discover the Value of Money. - Jan Jansen

Committed to lead from the heart I appreciate a free spirit and do not follow idealistic rulebook. - Nidhi Khanna

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable. - Simon Sinek

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth! - Israelmore Ayivor

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. - Brian Tracy

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect. - Michael Bassey Johnson

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. - Jaymin Shah

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

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. - C.S. Lewis

…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him. - Coco J. Ginger

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. - William Shakespeare

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime — and that’s OK. - Beau Taplin

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. - Tom Clancy

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

Coz life, you see, is not a fairy tell. Just have faith in yourself and God. Let the life take you where it wants to. - Saumyaa Suneja

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. - Jane Austen

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

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity.For this reason, he has integrity.The person of inferior integritynever loses sight of his integrity;For this reason, he lacks integrity. - Lao Tzu

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love - Clive Barker

If your plan will do more harm than good, then God will not permit it - Aireen C. Pontillo

Some of us don’t trust others unless there’s a reason to trust them.I prefer to trust others until they give me a reason not to. - Steven Aitchison

Her whole existence was calling his name and she had no clue where SHE actually was... He continued his path on achieving his goals because he knew that was the source of her scream... Secretly or not she was the biggest of them all - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice. - Steve Maraboli

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself. - Ilyas Kassam

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. - Sam Harris

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul! - Munia Khan

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone. - Lauren Conrad

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

The future is unlimited for you right now, no one can knows what you capable of. Do not surrender! Only you are capable to change the world. - Kamal Khanzada

It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Another One! - D.J. Khaled

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. - Mother Jones

A private organisation may not have sufficient apple or other essential ingredients in its monthly stock, but its top brass will only talk about individual’s performance pie i.e. achievement vs target of apple-pie sales in the meeting. - Anuj Somany

Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing. - Alexander Gordon Smith

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. - Howard Schwartz

If you are not living each day with excitement, energy, and passion, then you are not living true to your life purpose. - Celestine Chua

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away. - Amit Kalantri

I realized that marriage is not only about exchanging vows, but it's about two people who equally make a continuous effort to honour their vows. - Gugu Mona

Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again. - Saleem Durrani

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance. - Dennis Kucinich

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. - W. Somerset Maugham

If a man does not die in the womb or perish at birth, God has a great purpose for him. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Your power is in your thoughts not in your physical strength, - Debasish Mridha

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. - Marti Melville

In this life at least,Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well,Impervious heroes we are not… - Scott Hastie

Importance is not in ‘discharge’ (of karmas) that occurs; but it is in the contemplation (dhyan) within at that time in effect that is important. - Dada Bhagwan

To become the best terrorists of your kind, it will take about 30,000 hours on focused practice. How you think of achieving a goal is not the same as how you want to achieve a goal. Not everything you think about is done the right way it should be done. - Prince Akwarandu

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness. - Enza Vita

Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink - Lucy 'Aisy

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do. - RVM

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. - Winston S. Churchill

Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:after deathhow will I know my love was true,this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? - Phan Ming Yen

Stay in the light, as those who seek to stay in the dark cannot touch you! - - Inshan Meahjohn

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. - Don Roff

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them. - Confucius

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. - Seneca

When you become too special in life and death comes, you are only given an expensive burial, follow remembrance if too special, nothing more. Life just continue being expensive than you think with each generation. - Osasumwenfrank

What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is right in front of us... - Donna M. Zadunajsky

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution."[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994] - Nelson Mandela

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path. - Garth Nix - Sabriel

If a person wants to be a part of your life,they will make an obvious effort to do so.Think twice before reserving a space in your heartfor people who do not make an effort to stay. - Sham Hinduja

Practice. It's not about perfect, it's about practice. - Christine Haggerty

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - C.G. Jung

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful. - Edmund White

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. - Jean de la Bruyere

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. - Aldous Huxley

She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. - Kristin Hannah

Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people. - -Shandel Slaten

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. - Erma Bombeck

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. - Heinrich Heine

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. - Unknown

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. - Thomas Hobbes

The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted. - Dada Bhagwan

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

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs - rassool jibraeel snyman

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire. - Lysander Spooner

Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain. - Masashi Kishimoto

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

Busyness does not make you money, business do. Are you running a busyness or a business? - Saji Ijiyemi

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. - Rick Warren

Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life - Morrissey

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K. LeGuin

She's SINGLE doesnt really mean she's AVAILABLE.She's IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she's NOT INTERESTED.She's ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT'S OVER.IT'S JUST COMPLICATED untill she's MARRIED! - Emmanuel Aghado

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. - Plato

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love. - Dillon Burroughs

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

In life, nothing is impossible to achieve when you have enthusiasm, optimism, confidence, and commitment. - Debasish Mridha

Badmouthing things and other people is another way to appear smarter in front of the many.It's sad that some people use this dirty trick just to increase their self worth... - Adrian Alconera

- Why is depression the blues and not the grays? - Because racer!-Jarod Kintz and - Stefan D

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on. - Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. - Pat Conroy

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. - C. JoyBell C.

It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices. - Israelmore Ayivor

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. - David Platt

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! - Augustine of Hippo

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. - Debasish Mridha

The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky. - Ashley Madau

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

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s nothing mysterious about Cosmic Ordering, it’s simply a method used to transmute thought into reality. - Stephen Richards

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. - C.G. Jung

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

If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul - Jeremy Aldana

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next. - Robert Henri

Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change. - Kim Yannayon

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. - Hesiod

To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job. - M.H. Rakib

A child cannot pay for its mother's milk - Chinua Achebe

No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence. - Gary Edward Gedall

Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Cultural indoctrination makes stupid people believe there's nothing wrong in Meat Eating. There is. Who eat it, lose "It". - Fakeer Ishavardas

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing. - Konrad Lorenz

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. - Keith Gessen

But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hatred begets One with eyes Closed,The wiser's love cannot be sourced. - Shouvik N. Hore

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor. - Michael Patrick King

When tired, when bored, when happy, when unhappy, when night, when day, when cold, when hot, when nervous, when relaxed you always need music to fly into another dimension, the Dimension of Mindlessness! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. - Mehmet Murat ildan

The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself. - T Jay Taylor

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived. - Shannon L. Alder

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement. - Gary Rohrmayer

Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life.. - Junar Co Beadoy

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw

It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me. - C. JoyBell C.

In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car. - Santosh Kalwar

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards. - Geoffroy Birtz

Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away. - Dada Bhagwan

Public-sector employment - another way to be shielded from reality. - Mike Klepper

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't - Cassandra Clare

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. - Robert Henri

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. - Adolf Hitler

I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose. - Erin Kelly Bartelma

Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music. - William Faulkner

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. - Boris Pasternak

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. - May Sarton

A person cannot tell the truth, if they don't live the truth & they can't live the truth, if they don't know the truth_ ♥ Cutting Truths - Michael Levy

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. - Cato the Elder

Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process). - Thomas Szasz

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When someone tells you they’re too busy, it’s not that they mismanage their time, it’s that you’re not a priority. - Rob Liano

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father. - Max Lucado

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. - Helen Rowland

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct. - Gary Hopkins

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died. - Ambrose Bierce

Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less. - Porcupine Tree

You will not be able to envision your future until you block out the words of those who constantly scorch you with discouraging remarks - Evy Michaels

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. Curtis

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.Visions born of hope give birth to our success.What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it. - Terry Brooks

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions. - Peter Atkins

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught. - Parnell Hall

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. - W. Somerset Maugham

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to. - Erica Eisdorfer

The faithless are surprised, that the faithful put no faith in them; the infidels are astounded that the wise do not put trust in them. After all we don't entrust cement to grow abundant foliage. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally... - Garrett McCoy

Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun! - Misti Renea Neely

A person who says every person has a right to a decent education may not actually mean people should be robbed to support bad schools or all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years. - Jeffrey Tucker

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing. - Unarine Ramaru

Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?Let me hear you BREATHELet me watch as you sleepThe Sparrow's Eyes... Promises shift into judgmentsI cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments - Slipknot

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear - Debasish Mridha

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. - Corra Harris

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand. - Confucius

Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard. - Finn Mackay

Love is like the senses of the body.Imagine you are blind, you can see an object using touch. You can feel around it and see it mentally.Now imagine you can't feel, but can see. You can't feel what you see.You may see love, but not feel love. When you feel love, you also so see it. - Blake McCormick

The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story. - Tamyara Brown

Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose. - Gugu Mona

Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure. - Josh Rose

The reality of life does not change who you are, it only changes your perspective. - Morgan Chabane

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end. - Ed Sheeran

Clear skies do not promise rain. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If you do not have enemies on your way to the top, you are already a celebrated failure. - Osunsakin Adewale

There's an invisible thread with this universe that connects some people regardless of circumstances. Life should not be the compromises that fail to realise this thread...Life should be a journey to explore and realise this invisible thread - Dipin Damodharan

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. - Rita Mae Brown

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") - W.B. Yeats

Though lovers be lost love shall not. - Dylan Thomas

War does not determine who is right-only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view. - Khushwant Singh

Hear not fear.Fear not here. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. - Sir Winston Churchill

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction. - Mouloud Benzadi

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought. - Eckhart Tolle

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. - Charles F. Kettering

Getting a new job will not change your life. To change your life, change your choices. - Debasish Mridha

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso

Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Jesus was not a carpenter forever. - Chris Matakas

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking? - Gene Wilder

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. - Ellen Kushner

Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life - Nick Carter

Do not give hope where there is none.Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some. - Rosen Topuzov

Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.I find myself wondering if figures of speech are not, after all, the silhouettes of human bodies which we so ardently desire or abhor. - Victor Eustáquio

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. - Oscar Wilde

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. - Vincent Van Gogh

The beauty of today may not be realised until it becomes tomorrow’s memory - Steven Aitchison

To a great mind , nothing is little - Sherlock Holmes

People always seem so shock and horrified when they find out some one committed suicide. They then always ask the How? What I want is not the How? But the Why? And maybe then, we can prevent it. - Kumoriko

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau

I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything. - Emma Watson

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

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? - Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics. - Kent Beck

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. - Mary Baker Eddy

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. - Maxwell Maltz

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life. - Milissa R. Bailey

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice. - Orrin Woodward

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Every morning is a reason to begin living again… in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself! - Lara Biyuts

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell

What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Sophocles

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. - Theodore Roosevelt

Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you? - Ade Santi

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red - Priyavrat Thareja

To live with the laws, weeds will not survive. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself. - Charles Baudelaire

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

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite. - Voltaire

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. - Sigmund Freud

Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over. - Charles Dickens

We tend to problem our problem why not let our problems become more problematic than us - Subingsubing Dondy

I do not know everything; still many things I understand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face. - Hugh Elliott

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury - Jeanette Winterson

Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different. - Debasish Mridha

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion. - Steven Magee

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance - C. William Beebe

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods. - Onyi Anyado

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. - Henry Fielding

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

Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself. - Bikash Chaurasiya

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence. - Chris Vonada

Silence is a language not all people understand. - Abdel Halim Boudekhana

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. - Mother Teresa

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from. - Auliq Ice

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places. - Lailah Gifty Akita

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum. - Miley Cyrus

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. - Jerry Spinelli

A history has not been made by you.History made you.The Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue CircleAmen - Petra Hermans

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen

Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The secret to happiness: resist nothing and surrender everything. - Maximus Freeman

One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy - Eiichiro Oda

Not every emotion deserves the same attention - Ramana Pemmaraju

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose. - Chris Brady

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. - Ann Radcliffe

Think about it: Here you are, two ambitious, opinionated, stressed-out adults, trying to live in the same house together, prosper together, maybe raise kids together, and, with any luck, take pleasure in spending the rest of your natural-born lives together. This is not easy. - Paula Szuchman ; Jenny Anderson

The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it. - tirumala

You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet! - Mehmet Murat ildan

People and nations cannot be happy, if they do not acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ - Sunday Adelaja

You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you. - Stephen Richards

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. - Joan D. Chittister

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. - Coco J. Ginger

Sometimes you have to do nothing to make something happen. - Marty Rubin

Since in the world you imagines, a world without power and money, with no prohibitions, with no pain or death, each man would be God, and God therefore would not be possible. He would be a lie, because His attributes would be those of every man, woman and child: grace, immortality and supreme good. - Carlos Fuentes

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty. - Anthony Liccione

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. - Beth Kephart

Women may be better than men but not not even God can beat a Real Man - Swapnil Kumar

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. - Marilyn Monroe

Let me not fear adversity. - Debasish Mridha

Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow. - Kemi Sogunle

When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. - John Steinbeck

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying - Thomas Paine

There is nothing my mind can conceive, my heart can believe, my eyes can see and my soul can visualize that I cannot do. Even if the whole world says I can’t, it’s just a matter of time and I will get it done. - Dr. Bien Sufficient

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. - Sri Chinmoy

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Bertrand Russell

When it comes to passion, I'm not sure you have any choice but to follow. - Dan Brown

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term viable solution to attaining strength. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Some people you’re not meant to get over. - Dominic Riccitello

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary. - David W. Earle

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading - Gautama Buddha

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. - Glenn Beck

failure is not absolute, failure grants experience, experience prevents failure - Adam

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives. - Eugene V. Debs

A person who can feel the pain of the underprivileged people can always be a true, stand-up comedian; most performers do not stand up to this standard and yet, surprisingly, many are popular. - Anuj Somany

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life. - Amit Kalantri

Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know. - Emily Thorne

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me. - Sarah Ruhl

She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way. - Faraaz Kazi

He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. - Patricia Hampl

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. - Auliq Ice

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. - Rosa Parks

This is the word of the LORD saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. - Pazaria Smith

nothing can change a person's cruelty who's love is 'cruelty - litymunshi

Memories should fade with time but I do not understand why they become clearer as days go by. - Auliq Ice

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. - Jon Acuff

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

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

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read. - Stephen Richards

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart. - Tony Samara

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

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence. - Sylvia Plath

You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others. - Debasish Mridha

Not everyone can understand your language like using "BTW", "BRB", "SAA" and many other such type of short words. - Deyth Banger

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. - Jeff Jarvis

You are the only thing that's holdin' yourself back If you keep waiting you might miss another chance.

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. - Lisa Kogan

If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading. - Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God. - Thomas à Kempis

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children. - Kelly Bartlett

It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That’s a sentence that deserves a re-read. - Toni Sorenson