A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Author: William Hazlitt

Author: William Hazlitt

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In other words, Botticelli's ideal women look like women and not boys. They're soft and curvaceous.

Author: Sylvain Reynard
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to

Author: Oliver E. Williamson
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Money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumab

Author: David Graeber
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When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.

Author: Billy Graham
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The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is not

Author: E.M. Forster
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The best method of sharing your vision is your personal example

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so

Author: George Brett
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When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's ca

Author: Lysa TerKeurst
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You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the

Author: Chuck Tanner
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If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.

Author: Sheryl Sorrentino
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I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things

Author: Paulo Coelho
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I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Author: Garth Nix
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Author: James Thurber
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It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

Author: Roni Askey-Doran
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What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Fre

Author: Jesús Holguin
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Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once

Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

Author: Shannon Celebi
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I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to foc

Author: Andreï Makine
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coinci

Author: Susan B. Anthony
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Author: Philip James Bailey
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi

Author: Edith Hamilton
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Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

Author: Michael Meade
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A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is

Author: Yann Martel
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Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Author: Phil Lord
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'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I he

Author: Rupi Kaur
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I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother." ArtemisSet and Bathymaas

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
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No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt

Author: Jane Jacobs
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I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI

Author: Derek Landy
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It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.

Author: Rebecca Aguilar
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wrec

Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Discouragement leads away from the right path, and accomplishes the devil’s desire for destruction

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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A friend gave me a rainbow as a gift, so I put it up in the sky so everyone could share.

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
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For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possib

Author: Robert S. Hichens
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When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same marg

Author: Darnell Lamont Walker
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So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.

Author: Nenia Campbell
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
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We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPo

Author: Milton Glaser
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He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited

Author: Elton Trueblood
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The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, o

Author: R. Alan Woods
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Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Gr

Author: J.K. Rowling
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We think we owe everyone something. We think we need to explain ourselves and we think too much abou

Author: Robert M. Drake
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When you use your mind to its highest potential,people will respect you.When you use your heart to i

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Walk on the path of lights.

Author: Unknown
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Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at

Author: Kelly McGonigal
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Sis I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much do

Author: Anonymous
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Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Author: Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Author: Voltaire
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When God opens the windows of heaven for rain to flow, those who will enjoy are those who sow! Don't

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak

Author: Susan C. Young
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I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The fu

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Comple

Author: Tina Fey
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Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to h

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person w

Author: Criss Jami
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a leg

Author: Osman Baydemir
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Change is such hard work.

Author: Billy Crystal
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I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completel

Author: Leslie Morgan Steiner
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The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual

Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
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When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I prac

Author: Steve Buscemi
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If I had one wish,for who I could be,I would be a fishafloat in the sea...

Author: Tate Flynn
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I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what

Author: Brandan Roberston
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Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mate

Author: Suzie Ivy
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What the gurus were now selling was rehashed woo-woo! Now with NAPS you can truly use the Law of Att

Author: Stephen Richards
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Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.

Author: Bryant McGill
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There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.

Author: Erica Lindquist
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few erro

Author: Jim Rohn
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Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to r

Author: Munia Khan
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I am somewhat exhausted

Author: Unknown
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I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tas

Author: Kunal Sen
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Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Author: Travis Bradberry
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I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out t

Author: Donna Tartt
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different

Author: Eddie Vedder
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into

Author: Kate Moss
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In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on ea

Author: Toba Beta
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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea

Author: Steve Prefontaine
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She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on sin

Author: Anthony Burgess
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I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
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The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to r

Author: Steven Magee
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God is the Self of the world, but you can't see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you

Author: Alan W. Watts
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.

Author: Audrey Regan
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This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost

Author: Jennifer Niven
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Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Author: Virgil
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Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Author: Rose Kennedy
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To make dollars from cents you have to have sense.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word t

Author: Samuel R. Delany
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He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my love

Author: J. Randy Taraborrelli
Quote #139167

The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart.

Author: Scott Stabile
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When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life.

Author: Erik Pevernagie
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In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they ca

Author: Frederick Smith
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Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

Author: Robert M. Pirsig
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Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspape

Author: Roman Payne