A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Author: Arnold J. Toynbee

Author: Arnold J. Toynbee

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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to p

Author: Anais Nin
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The biggest turn off for a girl as far as I am aware apart from all logistic issues, is a guy withou

Author: Hemant Pandey
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Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

Author: David Rossi
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Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real

Author: Peter S. Beagle
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We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness.

Author: Sōseki Natsume
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Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in m

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
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What makes you a chaffinch?

Author: Helen Macdonald
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Today..passes as yesterday, today is passing by... Tomorrow shall become today and that too shall pa

Author: Escapades
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Everybody has to die. Why cry, when you have wings to fly!

Author: RVM
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Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

Author: Stefan Balint
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Dance Like A Pronunciation

Author: Gagan Khiwani
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

Author: Banana Yoshimoto
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Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can

Author: Carlos Wallace
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Barton Goldenberg is simply the most effective transformational leader I have met. His business acum

Author: Cyrus Aram
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There is thin line between smile and laughter.

Author: Santosh Kalwar
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A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative l

Author: Christopher Bram
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All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives

Author: T.K. Whipple
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A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged

Author: Stasi Eldredge
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Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be

Author: William Gibson
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon

Author: Unknown
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It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we nee

Author: Caitlin Moran
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It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being s

Author: Téa Obreht
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Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to kee

Author: Mike Bond
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Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your market

Author: Kevin J. Donaldson
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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insinceriti

Author: Siegfried Sassoon
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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon

Author: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Depression is not always feeling sad. Most of the time it is feeling no

Author: Various
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I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marria

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long a

Author: Joel Salatin
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When you create a lifestyle from a dream, you provide no room left; for failure.

Author: Nikki Rowe
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You always have a choice. You can't stop what's coming, but you can decide how you meet it. The fate

Author: G. Willow Wilson
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A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's

Author: Shimon Peres
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She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, i

Author: Rachel Caine
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The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by

Author: Anna Quindlen
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Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

Author: Don Roff
Quote #281980

I can talk to you about my past, Oliver, not to make you pity me or make myself look weak for attent

Author: Elisa Marie Hopkins
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God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protec

Author: Millard Fillmore
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
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You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than

Author: Deepa Bajaj
Quote #403913

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

Author: Lee lacocca
Quote #175333

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a

Author: Nick Harkaway
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, th

Author: Thomas Hardy
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Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates

Author: Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'An

Author: Brian Posehn
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Author: H.G. Wells
Quote #61598

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior

Author: Herbert A. Simon
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In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I for

Author: Jenna Alatari
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Your Primal efforts must be fun, energising and easy to maintain at all times, otherwise, you are de

Author: Mark Sisson
Quote #362807

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Author: Albert Einstein
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Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's

Author: Nargis Fakhri
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In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of

Author: Marianne Williamson
Quote #27635

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Author: John Dewey
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Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. T

Author: Elif Shafak
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Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Author: Luke Taylor
Quote #277258

Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.

Author: Fela Durotoye
Quote #419705

A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Author: Hugo Grotius
Quote #359932

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Quote #370477

Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exa

Author: Lionel Suggs
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The "layman" need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let eve

Author: A.W. Tozer
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and a

Author: Henry Ford
Quote #411120

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #83284

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not troub

Author: Susanna Clarke
Quote #155008

I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies.

Author: Truth Devour
Quote #351466

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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Throw a blanket over it!

Author: Breehn Burns
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: tha

Author: David Brin
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In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen

Author: William Shakespeare
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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-b

Author: Neil Gaiman
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I Still Love Her From The Core Of My Heart.

Author: Divakar Yadav
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I am a part of you, and the part of me, that is a part of you, will always be a part of you. That pa

Author: Deni Hankin
Quote #176154

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

Author: Marty Rubin
Quote #277339

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comf

Author: Pamela Druckerman
Quote #411965

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Author: Unknown
Quote #121501

Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life.

Author: Jon Morrison
Quote #476512

Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

Author: David Perlmutter
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Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and

Author: Frank R. Zindler
Quote #375433

Take the risk! You find the right road!

Author: Unknown
Quote #182581

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #419106

I am my own heaven and hell!

Author: J. C. F. von Schiller
Quote #312296

Don't get caught in the trap of "Waiting". When I retire....When I get off work When I go that party

Author: Matthew Donnelly
Quote #38478

I sang in my chains like the sea

Author: Dylan Thomas
Quote #97236

He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.

Author: Arthur Urbane Dilley
Quote #325465

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Author: Neil Gaiman
Quote #43769

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #369792

I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets l

Author: Lauren Oliver
Quote #299257

There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the f

Author: Andrew Peterson
Quote #306016

You will be able to do great things when you know and truly understand that all you really have and

Author: ShirLee McGarry
Quote #49272

Without failure, there is no success.

Author: Unknown
Quote #356227

She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her

Author: Ariel Dorfman
Quote #345446

Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they bo

Author: Suzanne Brockmann
Quote #410010

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

Author: Melody Beattie
Quote #63358

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Author: Paul Acampora
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Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your care

Author: Robert Griffin III
Quote #298687

Hope wins over experience every time.

Author: Marc Marcel
Quote #486724

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Author: Charles de Gaulle