A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Quote #277908

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at yo

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Author: Stephen Leacock
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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the ki

Author: Nick Hornby
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Quote #477806

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Hon

Author: A. N. Wilson
Quote #455874

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our

Author: Richard Rohr
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The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Author: Miles Anthony Smith
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Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour th

Author: rassool jibraeel snyman
Quote #148647

A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #87414

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman i

Author: Elizabeth Prioleau
Quote #458553

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.

Author: Candice Swanepoel
Quote #362228

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what

Author: Blaise Pascal
Quote #292503

Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind

Author: Jonas Salk
Quote #17584

The heart that gives, gathers.

Author: Lao Tzu
Quote #291366

The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #315130

A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu idea

Author: Aletheia Luna
Quote #502873

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

Author: Brad Goreski
Quote #10126

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Author: Aristotle
Quote #28767

​If You have Chosen a Destination, You Must Find a Path. if You have Chosen a Path, You Must Find th

Author: Vineet Raj Kapoor
Quote #259158

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the

Author: Melika Dannese Lux
Quote #16345

Find out what you need to do to express your importance.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #267545

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to

Author: Gale Forman
Quote #361064

Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you g

Author: George Mikes
Quote #176910

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

Author: Johnnie Dent Jr.
Quote #396991

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridicul

Author: Voltaire
Quote #293610

Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.

Author: Emily R. King
Quote #410721

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #259592

That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.

Author: Claudia Gray
Quote #200043

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

Author: S.A. Tawks
Quote #52598

I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt

Author: Amy Sommers
Quote #15834

God in human form made of God’s light is seen. By human, it is meant that a man may be a devotee of

Author: Dr Dipak Kumar Pramanik
Quote #460810

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Author: Laurie Colwin
Quote #72334

Hey, people ... Do not complain about walking on a Monday if you stayed in folded arms on a Sunday.

Author: Unknown
Quote #114163

I don’t believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing—nothing exists for me.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #166176

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy

Author: B.F. Skinner
Quote #58748

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #96374

Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be.

Author: Brad Lomenick
Quote #116589

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense.

Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Quote #256075

You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.

Author: Robert Thier
Quote #472244

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelm

Author: Peter T. King
Quote #501750

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense

Author: Bear Grylls
Quote #287315

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real jou

Author: Mathias Malzieu
Quote #423265

The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.

Author: Charlie Human
Quote #74089

I don't want any more magic in my life, your love is enough for me!

Author: Avijeet Das
Quote #260964

West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salva

Author: Avery Flynn
Quote #140327

Relationships aren’t meant to be based upon example. If you go with the flow all will come.

Author: Dominic Riccitello
Quote #261860

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Author: Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Quote #489240

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Author: Lucille Ball
Quote #299698

Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine

Author: Lao Tzu
Quote #123907

You desire me. I can scent it on the wind.” He drew in a breath and licked his lips. “I have been wa

Author: Stella Berkley
Quote #276378

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #486872

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal

Author: Charles Kennedy
Quote #207400

Just this once, be the stubborn bastard I know. Don't die.

Author: Zoe Forward
Quote #293062

I make positive choices so I can be happy.

Author: Hayley Williams
Quote #57209

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou

Author: Margaret Thatcher
Quote #504381

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast we all have an opportunity to create t

Author: Ryan Bethencourt
Quote #133901

The Lord is my redeemer.The Lord is my defender

Author: Unknown
Quote #415525

Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.

Author: New England saying
Quote #32843

Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.

Author: Betsy Schow
Quote #451306

My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at s

Author: Sydney Pollack
Quote #109468

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

Author: Harold Holzer
Quote #406210

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Author: Mae West
Quote #43941

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Author: Plato
Quote #459080

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike.

Author: Maya Lin
Quote #317072

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Author: Marshall McLuhan
Quote #196352

My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other so

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #439417

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Author: Orlando Bloom
Quote #32462

Give into hope, I say, for fear will only paralyze. It is better to life a life of love amidst the p

Author: Stacy A. Padula
Quote #63140

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of blood

Author: Penelope Lively
Quote #189293

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

Author: Ilchi Lee
Quote #98877

Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; t

Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Quote #378744

It was one of those years when there was no summer. There was no winter either. It was just November

Author: Betty K. Erwin
Quote #132001

You are known by the thoughts you seed.

Author: Vikrmn
Quote #331254

Sometimes i think you were a dolphin in a previous life,

Author: Ben M. Baglio
Quote #280297

Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego he

Author: Geoffrey Wood
Quote #150322

There is always a spark before a drive. Don’t expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won’t

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #153511

Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.

Author: Mandy Hale
Quote #141109

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is

Author: Layne Beachley
Quote #381350

If love is not the answer, what is the question?

Author: Marty Rubin
Quote #32608

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come un

Author: Hyrum Yeakley
Quote #258419

To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruit

Author: Bill Mills
Quote #267110

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co

Author: Lionel Shriver
Quote #292053

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committe

Author: Bill Delvaux
Quote #119314

Your strength is greater than your struggles.

Author: Unknown
Quote #311644

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose

Author: Alexander Zalan
Quote #315604

I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...

Author: John Geddes
Quote #121959

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

Author: Vann Chow
Quote #400841

The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful plac

Author: Jonathan Barnes
Quote #485498

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was bro

Author: Blake Lively
Quote #324734

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that

Author: Matthew Donnelly
Quote #43925

Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody,

Author: Sandy Nathan
Quote #461214

Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby
Quote #319357

How could you...? How?""Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your l

Author: Eoin Colfer
Quote #498496

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Author: Edward Abbey
Quote #49519

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success.

Author: Dwayne Johnson
Quote #184783

Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

Author: Brian Doyle
Quote #229955

The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote #273661

Adán fell asleep to these stories and slept like the dead until the sun struck him in the eyes and t

Author: Don Winslow
Quote #360121

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his

Author: Diana Gabaldon