Quotation Explorer - 'Sure'

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman? - Confucius

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. - Tim Cahill

Entertainment will not cure the mind's problems.Pleasure will not cure the heart's problems.Wealth will not cure the soul's problems.Force will not cure the world's problems.Love will cure every problem. - Matshona Dhliwayo

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. - Henry Sanders

Before you call the Kettle black, Make sure you are stainless steel. - Andrea L'Artiste

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something. - Bentinho Massaro

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

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. - Juvenal

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. - Leo Babauta

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order. - Kevin Hooyman

Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder.I am not afraid nor am I disappointed with it; if this is what God Almighty want me to have; I will make sure that I will make good use of this disorder; and, be the best person that I can be. - Temitope Owosela

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful. - Israelmore Ayivor

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! - Julie Morgenstern

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others. - Elizabeth George

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it. - Oprah Winfrey

Humanity is kind to its respond, aim for distinction, can be measured by its deeds. - Kishore Bansal

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must. - F.M. Burgett

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes. - Fiona Apple

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure. - Ed Asner

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mahatma Gandhi

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. - Marilyn Ferguson

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors. - Ambrose Bierce

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain. - Geoffrey Wood

Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the age and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. - James Thurber

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures - Imran Khan

He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit! - Avijeet Das

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world. - Bono

We feel very happy in nature but we must be very sure that nature also feels very happy when we are there! Happiness must be mutual! Treat nature well! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. - Louisa May Alcott

What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise. - Meredith T. Taylor

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

A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If you love someone so much in your life, Then they will surely hurt & destroy you from Inside..!! - shady_N

Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune. - Lucian of Samosata

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. - Samual Rogers

I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did. - Salma Hayek

A delight to read is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. - Jane Austen

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels."From: Frank and Ernest by , art by . - Bob Thaves

Look back in life, just make sure your rolling forward first. - Aaron Lauritsen

There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it! - Rachael Bermingham

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time. - Shawn Achor

My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am - Sam Politinsky

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

To gain the treasure, you must leave the trash. - Eric Samuel Timm

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." . "Just try to ensure that you step in the right direction." SB - Lao Tzu

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. - Marianne Moore

If future frightens you, Let me tell you, neither it is sure - nor it is relevant. But for sure, you are wasting your present which is certain! Live Life Day @ Time - Praveen Chenna

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it. - Paulo Coelho

Even Karma rewards generosity. The good that you do must surely catch up with you! - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The reason sex is fun is not to cater to the desire for individual human pleasure, but because humanity would have ceased to exist a long time ago if it were drudgery. - Joe Beaton

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. - Neil Gaiman

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure. - Stephen Richards

As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world. - Steven Magee

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. - J.K. Rowling

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. - David Brooks

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. - Dale Carnegie

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. - Frank Zappa

The journey has many bumps, twists and turns. But one day you will reach your destination. You'll know for sure then that it was all worth it. So keep on trusting and keep on walking. The end will be more glorious than you can imagine. - Anusha Atukorala

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

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Take the time to plant seeds even if you're unsure if they'll grow; who knows, maybe all it takes is for someone else to come along and water it. - Kai Mann

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it. - Cormac McCarthy

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. - Chris Hart

Leisure is the mother of philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve

make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! - oladosu feyikogbon

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

I am sure the grapes are sour. - Aesop

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me. - Sanober Khan

Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away. - Debasish Mridha

Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Hermits have no peer pressure. - Steven Wright

A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl. - Stephan A. Hoeller

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown Author 909

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted. - Nael Gharzeddine

LIKING WHAT YOU DO IS PLEASURE, DOING WHAT YOU LIKE IS PASSION. - Hansrajvir

When the search for pleasure becomes obsessive, it holds us in thrall and keeps us from experiencing other satisfactions. Joy, on the other hand, increases our pleasure and helps us find fulfilment in any number of things, even at those times of life when physical pleasure has ebbed. - Pope Francis

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. - Robert Graves

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. - Jewish Proverb

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it. - Bill Watterson

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. - Tibor Kalman

We work hard to ensure an increase in investment, income, profit, savings, etc. - Sunday Adelaja

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. - Lewis Carroll

Oceanic farness treasures tomorrowMingled tears lost in the sea of sorrowOur immortal love will lead us a way When pale days remain cloudy and grey - Munia Khan

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. - Toni Morrison

Today's sufferings will be the pleasure of future success. - Debasish Mridha

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. - Sylvia Plath

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. - Ernesto Che Guevara

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish - John Paul Warren

Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution. - Debasish Mridha

Make sure you spend time learning how to think and learning how to learn. It’s okay to have fun, but try to cultivate interests that might actually be useful. And whatever you do, if you are going to spend time on it, do it well. - Rohvannyn Shaw

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. - Martin Luther

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. - Ambrose Bierce

But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented. - Jean-Paul Sartre

There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. - Ray Bradbury

Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.- - RVM

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. - Marcus Valerius Martialis

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets. - Elizabeth Aston

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. - William Shakespeare

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. - Audrey Hepburn

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Power is not pleasure, power is pain. - Amit Kalantri

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. - Giambattista Vico

The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends. - Todd Stocker

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Anonymous

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

..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind. - Nikki Rowe

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also. - William Shakespeare

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know. - Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Books are my greatest treasures. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure. - Natsuo Kirino

La terre nous en apprend plus sur nous que tous les livres. Parce qu'elle nous résiste. L'homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l'obstacle.(Terre des hommes) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-. - Genevieve Sarpong

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill Shankly

When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal. - Liza M. Wiemer

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began. - S.J. Watson

Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies. - Serina Hernandez

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

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again. - Diane Ackerman

Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them. - Amy Leigh Mercree

I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times. - Terraine Francois

The pleasures of living is loving! - Anthony Liccione

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

In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go. - Lao Tzu

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. - John Piper

and my pack so light I’m sure I’ve left something behind—but only my worry, and only for a moment. - Jameson Fitzpatrick

Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories. - Hanan Al-Shaykh

Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures. - Steven Magee

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it. - Israelmore Ayivor

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. - Bertrand Russell

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault

Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality - Miguel Syjuco

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. - Edmond de Goncourt

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. - Cyrus the Great

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. - Robert Louis Stevenson

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO - Dean Chavooshian

When you pray to God asking for something, make sure you are asking for the things that are driven by love and passion rather than the ones that are pushed by hate and anger. - Sameh Elsayed

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured - Treasure Stitches

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. - Hesiod

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent. - Janet Edwards

Make sure you stand firm on the solid rock. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state. - Steven Magee

Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft. - gaurav rao

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. - Nelson Mandela

The greatest gift that you can give to me is not your treasures but your love. - Debasish Mridha

An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else. - Tullian Tchividjian

Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter. - Auliq Ice

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious. - Frank Boyden

By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society. - Debasish Mridha

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours. - Radhika Mundra

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. - Slavoj Žižek

The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. - Marya Mannes

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected. - Howard Markel

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment. - Toby Litt

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. - C.S. Lewis

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. - Charles Baudelaire

...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school... - Terry Roberts

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. - Evelyn Underhill

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives. - Sarah Weeks

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones) - Jeaniene Frost

It does not surprise seeing a husband working as slave to his wife , but how he takes often the pride or pleasure of admitting it publicly without a bit of shame of living such disgraceful life. - Anuj Somany

Be sure of this: when you make time for the Holy Spirit, He will make time to visit you. - Tiffany Domena

Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. - Napoleon Hill

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. - Jasper Johns

LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions. The rising People, hot and out of breath, Roared around the palace: "Liberty or death!" "If death will do," the King said, "let me reign; You'll have, I'm sure, no reason to complain." Martha Braymance - Ambrose Bierce

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. - Euripides

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. - James M. Barrie

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later. - Richard Branson

Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure "always" in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record. - Tanya Bullock

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done - H.G. Wells

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. - Steven Tyler

PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection. - Ambrose Bierce

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. - Franklin P. Jones

Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.Failure is a better teacher than success.Life is a better teacher than university. - Matshona Dhliwayo

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them. - James McGregor

Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove

If a man is highly sexed he's virile. If a woman is, she's a nymphomaniac. With them it's power but with us it's a disease! Even the act of sex is called penetration! Why don't they call it enclosure? - Gemma Hatchback

...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure. - Unarine Ramaru

Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images - Mahnaz Afkhami

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein

The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive. - Marty Rubin

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? - Gustave Flaubert

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure... - Fred Moten

There's a Pleasure"of happinessIn every thing I really wanna doWhen I find true happinessIn every thing I can do - - - Cocoy McCoy

Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything. - Eric Maisel Ph.D.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw

The Greatest Companionship you have is your Mind... Your Conscience Mind... The one which talks to you ! The only thing you need to make sure is that; it's positive ! - Alamvusha

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE - Angie karan

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. - Habeeb Akande

I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief... - Neil Abramson

God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action. - Quentin R. Bufogle

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. - Thomas Jefferson

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. - Lillian Carter

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. - Benedict Cumberbatch

Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull. - Abhijit Naskar

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died] - Johannes Kepler

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime. - Amit Kalantri

Currently, the average age of exposure to hardcore pornography is 9 years old. None of this can be good for anyone... except the sex industry. - Guy Noland

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure - Dorothy Allison

Love is the greatest treasure of humanity. - Debasish Mridha

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. - Horace

If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... - Hunter S. Thompson

The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 o’clock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didn’t meet him on the golf course. - Eric Christopher Jackson

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know. - Ann M. Martin

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. - George Bernard Shaw

Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. - Og Mandino

Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?Please try to describe the picture as much vocabulary as possible! - Deyth Banger

The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet. - J. Raymond

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

Don't expect people to always understand you. Instead, learn to understand them. Then Accept, Forgive & Love unconditionally. This is a sure way to be Happy. - RVM

I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour. - Cedric Namedi Mathuthe

In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. - Kahlil Gibran

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters? - Dominic Riccitello

Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list. - Karen Burton Mains

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. - William F. Buckley Jr.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. - Henry David Thoreau

When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. - Gerard Way

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon. - Sope Agbelusi

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. - Samuel Johnson

Deep pain awakens the pleasure of wonder. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness. - R. N. Prasher

A loving family is the biggest treasure a person can ever have.. - Himmilicious

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. - Paul De Gondi

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth. - Dennis Sharpe

Silence doesn’t mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite. - Love, Life, and Logic

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. - Diane Von Furstenberg

Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come. - GirlDrawsManga

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident. - Auliq Ice

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. - Grant Morrison

I never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins. - Debasish Mridha

Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true. - Criss Jami

Let us measure time not by moments but by memories. - Debasish Mridha

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life. - Ali B. Moe

A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it. - Unarine Ramaru

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. - Steve Jobs

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them. - Louis C.K.

America’s treasure troves of public and private data, IP, and critical infrastructure continues to be pilfered, annihilated, and disrupted, while an organizational culture of ‘Participation Trophy Winners managed by tech neophyte executives continue to lose one battle after the next. - James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure. - Francis de Sales

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. - Oscar Wilde

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity. - Zack Love

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive. - Sara Sheridan

I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint...here lately, being around you is agony. - Jackson Broussard

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. - Helen Keller

A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true.

The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

My life doesn't bore me, because I know its worth. So when I let you be part of it, ensure you add value and not attempt to devalue it; or else you can never be part of my future. - Gugu Mona

At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers. - Steven Magee

But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings. - S. Elizabeth Dover

It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk) - Joan Bauer

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

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

The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure . . . some with Pleasure!- - RVM

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say - O.Z "Osama Alzoubi"

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure.... - Christopher Hitchens

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. - Walter Savage Landor

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It’s a system that’s supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That’s how the system guides you through the world. - Daniel Todd Gilbert

Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain - George Gordon Byron

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns. - Jen Glantz

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. - P.G. Wodehouse

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . - Socrates

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it. - Sunday Adelaja

The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high. - Kemi Sogunle

It takes darkness to be aware of the light. - Treasure Tatum

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation. - Zeena Schreck

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully. - Amy Leigh Mercree

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity. - Angela Carter

The heart is a rare, unique treasure because it is strong and vulnerable at the same time. It is strong in its persistence to sustain life, yet it is vulnerable to both emotional and physical wounds. - Imania Margria

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. - Muhammad Asad

I Speculate on the origins of the universe .But in reality i believe the true facts are those of simple origins.And the universe is for sure out there. - Charlie waud

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis. - Rhys

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent. - John Darnielle

Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave. - Kristin Cashore

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just. - Solomon Northup

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. - Margaret Drabble

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

True children of God experience pleasure in giving. - Sunday Adelaja

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. - Og Mandino

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. - Bertrand Russell

The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. - Mother Teresa

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

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans. - Elizabeth George

If you can hear the humming sound of your air conditioner or fridge, it is a measure of time you are wasting. - J. K. Envy

A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself :) - Mona Hanie

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that. - Celine Dion

I am surely a creature. For what human has two hearts? But I have two hearts— one is always broken; the other is always whole. - C. JoyBell C.

The treasure of life, learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. - George Santayana

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul. - Todd Stocker

One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen

Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows. - Elizabeth Aston

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair. - Eraldo Banovac

The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do. - C. JoyBell C.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A man's life consist not of the things he possess, nor Facebook likes and approval.But some of it damn sure consist of his favorite hobbies and love of girls with guns - Herbert M. Brunner

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God. - Meister Eckhart

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars. - Osman Doluca

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. - Henry David Thoreau

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. - Brian Eno

Arguably insane utility workers that blatantly harass law abiding customers is likely to become more frequent as the long term effects of biologically toxic radio frequency (RF) radiation exposures from their transmitting smart meters continues to emerge. - Steven Magee

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. - John Newton

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it. - J.R. Rim

You’ll know that you and the vision are one when your actions flow out of a knowing that’s greater than your fears. Sure, you might be stunned by an obstacle, but it doesn’t determine your ultimate response. Your ultimate response comes from your true, authentic, pure voice. - Suzette Hinton

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. - Lee Iacocca

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

Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends.

You'll never be completely sure about the first move, but do it anyway. - Sarvesh Jain

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be joyful and beautiful like a flower and share your treasures with the universe. - Debasish Mridha

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? - Nicky Wire

I believe one should never invalidate another, even if you don't agree. No one is ever 100% right or 100% wrong. There is always some measure of truth on both sides." - L. R. W. Lee - L.R.W. Lee

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

The power of giving is beyond measure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures - Madelon Phillips

You will surely love the world if you enjoybeing used by people. - Vj Nadar

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When your faith leads the way, you will locate the source of your hidden treasures. - Israelmore Ayivor

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved. - Todd Stocker

All pleasures contain an element of sadness. - Jonathan Eibeschutz

When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure. - Debasish Mridha

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. - Auliq Ice

When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway. - Clyde B. Aster

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. - Elon Musk

He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do and nothing else to pursue. We should live by being true to the purpose of each moment. - Rati Tsiteladze

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. - L. M. Montgomery

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. - Socrates

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. - Deepak Chopra

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. - Ezra Bowen

If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie. - Hikigaya Hachiman

How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment. - Steve Maraboli

When once the Heart is awakened, every single moment 'in-time' is a treasure to beheld - AainaA-Ridtz

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. - Hesiod

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

It struck him that there is a beautiful symmetry to life. - Unsure

If your happy and you know it a smiley face will surely show it : ) Netiquette by NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles

When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. - Carl Sagan

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back. - Sheila Burke

You have merories?Lost somebody, which will mean he has died or something is going and you can't stop it the time eats so he dies...You lost a lot of choices??Did you...As far as I can tell, I think that I'm rich. I have one treasure and that's it, it's fill with such stuff. - Deyth Banger

We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I’m not convinced that it—passion—is one of those things that you have an endless amount of—like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I’m not so sure I’ll ever love like that again. - Laura Miller

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

Nowadays people have forgotten about morality and virtue, but they know how to resolve arguments. Look, what’s happening. We lead wars with measurements, dafters and calculations. We do not speak to inspire, we endeavour to create massacre and engulf as many people as we can. Where did we miss? - Alexander Zalan

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure. - Parker J. Palmer

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. - Mark Twain

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun. - Surgeo Bell

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. - Olli Jalonen

A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust. - Debasish Mridha

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. - Carl Schurz

Thoughts are powerful beyond measure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Seeking Intimacy with God and desiring Fellowship with Him, will make our calling in Christ sure. - Santosh Thankachan

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. - Ovid

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

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

Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion. - Paula Heller Garland

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse. - Carl R. White

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. - Richard M. Nixon

I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Jackson

Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.Oh, but I am, without shame. Her name is Titianni Aziz. - V.S. Carnes

The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival. - M.F. Moonzajer

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. - J.B.S. Haldane

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? - E.A. Bucchianeri

My heart aches for you! But don't despair! I am persuaded you will come about! Recollect what the poet says! I'm not sure which poet, but very likely it was Shakespeare, because it generally is, though why I can't imagine! - Georgette Heyer

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul. - Raheel Farooq

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. - George Sand

Someone was going to die; of that he was perfectly sure.The only question was who. - Caroline Lawerence

Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. - Garth Greenwell

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure. - Donna Lynn Hope

Men love pleasure. but women desire purposeful commitment. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory. - Debasish Mridha

For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there. - Cara Rosalie Olsen

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. - Henri Matisse

Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away. - Debasish Mridha

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading. - Eraldo Banovac

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it. - George Roche

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. - Enrico Fermi

Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. - Ellen Forney

A man's words will always express what has been treasured in his heart. - Luke 6:45

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie. - David Brin

Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities. - Emil Cioran

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back. - Rebecca McKinsey

She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault. - Henry James

In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling; stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way; leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it. - Ogwo David Emenike

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love - Jason W. Blair

There's always a glamour of pain even in pleasure. - ~ Shivam

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak. - Bill McKenzie

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. - Jonathan Edwards

Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities. - Shannon L. Alder

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. - Henry Miller

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. - Shirley Chisholm

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure. - Moxie Will

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all. - Marc Ashton

Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path. - Elaine Seiler

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared - Leila Aboulela

While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves. - Charlotte Kasl

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. - Ernest Hemingway

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them. - Kevin Heath

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. - Saint Basil

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health. - Ann Radcliffe

True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed - Brian Leslie

I want to be free, I want to be happy, I want to be at peace, I want to be me. I guess what I want in this world is what money surely brings. Don't blame me, for the Bible says "Money Answers All Things! - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. - William Bates

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. - Robert McCloskey

We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time. - Lyra Parish

Be sure you've chosen a right way to live, and stick to it. - Eraldo Banovac

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. - Ryan Lilly

If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. - Russell Baker

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. - Samuel Johnson

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C. Clarke

Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Be sure to bend but never break - Nikki Rowe

The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading. - Steve Maraboli

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right? I say.No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.He shakes his head. I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it. - Veronica Roth

Friendship is a wonderful thing.True friends are a treasure to hunt.Making a lot a friends does not make any sense Sincerity,,loyalty and understanding are the key factors in a meaningful friendship. Only very few possess all these qualities.And only very few are blessed with true friends - Deepti

A wind starts to blow, without feelings,A song falls in love, without singing,A life will begin in melodies of the strings,May you find all pleasure of the light,God bless, Warrior of Light! - Santosh Kalwar

Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain. - Jane Austen

But do not fall only for what can be seen,there is more than just beauty and pleasure... - Carol Padilla

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

The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence. - Debasish Mridha

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. - William Carlos Williams

Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What await you; golden treasures of risks taken. - Lailah Gifty Akita

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her - Terry Gilliam

Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them. - Amit Kalantri

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. - Anselm Feurbah

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain. - Jasmine Sandozz

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. - William Hazlitt

If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack. - Anthony Liccione

A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom. - Abhijit Naskar

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If there is no perfection of a work , be sure the perfection of a plan. - Cucuk Espe

Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant. - Kahlil Gibran

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. - Glenn Duncan

Dear Adam, I spent my life trying hard to prove to people that there is somebody out there who is not bad. Somebody who does not really care about money, but cares about honor, and no matter how this went, the real pleasure in life are about those who love you and willing even to die for you. - Sameh Elsayed

Because that's what it is, boy, it's a fight, or it'd better be. Because if there's something in me that's trying to kill me, maybe I can't get rid of it, but I don't have to make it welcome, and I'm sure not going to pretend it ain't there. - Cruce Stark

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Your treasure chest is your mind; not your gold mine. - Debasish Mridha

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. - Adam Gopnik

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

To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim. - Rémy de Gourmont

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later. - Richard Siken

Be sure that whatever you are is you. - Theodore Roethke

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. - Mark Twain

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

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. - Ninon de Lenclos

Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous. - Saahil Prem

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it. - Jo Walton

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. - George Horace Lorimer

Time is money!!You choose to invest it in thingsthat matters to you...that will offer you something better in the future or either you choose to investit in things that willgive you an easy solutionto your problems anda shortly pleasure to your life! - Rafael Kass.

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback. - Ambrose Bierce

As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it. - Judy Garland

If you are not scared to lose me, you sure as hell do not deserve me. - Saif Samir

A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North. - Jason W. Blair

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller

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

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

Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure. - Stefan Molyneux

Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life. - Gugu Mona

Learn to be Positive always. In pleasure or Pain, in Sun or Rain, in Loss or Gain, always be POSITIVE! - RVM

When you’re rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior of Mankind. - Toni Sorenson

Men love pleasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There are some certain things in life we know it for sure but we need to hear it from others .. ! - Anonymous Young Girl

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy. - Giacomo Casanova

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. - Sir Thomas Browne

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure - Francis Bacon

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. - Andrew Jackson

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. - Anne Rice

God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure. - Sunday Adelaja

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. - Garth Nix

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. - Edward Gibbon

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that. - Richard Williams

We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live. - Daniel Willey

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. - Donna Lynn Hope

The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely - Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen

Learn to be Positive always. In pleasure or Pain, in Sun or Rain, in Loss or Gain, always be POSITIVE!- - RVM

Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets and create learned helplessness that ensures people stay small. - Tony Dovale

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. - Oscar Wilde

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive. - Jean-Louis Gassee

[...] be unaffected by naysayers. Let not your desire or determination be wavered by the censure of cynics, the criticism of pessimists, the undermining of those that belittle, the jeering of the mockers, or the doubts of the skeptics. - Habib Umar

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. - David McCullough

Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill. - Rob Brezsny

I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be. - Michael Cunningham

#1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience! - P. A. Speers

A place that measures change in terms of centuries is the saddest place to live in as far us you are a live. - Auliq Ice

Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road. - Walter Spence

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. - T. Scott McLeod

Quotes are treasure! - Deyth Banger

As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time. - Sunday Adelaja

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups. - Daniel C. Dennett

Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever. - Vironika Tugaleva

We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. - Marty Rubin

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. - Vincent Van Gogh

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. - Israelmore Ayivor

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all? - Daniel Delgado F

When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all. - Mark Twain

People are willing to help you succeed but many are probably not sure whether you might feel insulted or might see it as genuine help, that's why we should always seek out for help when we're stuck,so as to make people feel welcomed to offer ideas. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. - Joseph de Maistre

I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere. - Nikki Rowe

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. - Chris Hedges

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. - Harry S Truman

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance. - Bertrand Russell

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure. - Csaba Gabor-B.

i know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a reader - Faiz Triumph

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. - William Golding

Treasure the journey, BE the destination. - Anna Silver

Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth. - Sam Cooke

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

If all the exposure in elevators and cafés and cars and televisions and kitchen radios was put together, the average person listens to several hours of music every day ["The Music In You," Aeon, January 8, 2015]. - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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

Don’t stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success. - Kevin J. Donaldson

Say no only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. - Gretchen Rubin

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised. - Surgeo Bell

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience. - Marie Cornelio

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You’ll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now? - Alastair Reynolds