A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Author: Claude Pepper

Author: Claude Pepper

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It is such a privilege to learn from children as they discover new worlds of possibility and give th

Author: Colleen Mariotti
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Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're not bei

Author: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the

Author: David Malouf
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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Our foundation is rockybecause we made a home in each other’s skin.the damage is beginning to show.

Author: K.Y. Robinson
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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
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Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire

Author: Dan Wells
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What do you mean, my life is at risk?" I questioned. "From one of the other professors?""Oh, it goes

Author: S.C. Barrus
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set

Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insec

Author: Drew Hayes
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That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listen

Author: Nadia Hashimi
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No queen has had to fight an insurrection in half a millennium. And she takes it personally. But it

Author: Paul W.S. Bowler
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Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she

Author: Marie Lu
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Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the

Author: Tom Althouse
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Because I mean it. I don’t care about anything else. I could lose anyone else and make it through. B

Author: Jessica Sorensen
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Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military co

Author: Nayan Chanda
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Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering i

Author: Alexei Sayle
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Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized group

Author: Glenn Greenwald
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We are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth

Author: Margaret Silf
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That’s why we’re not doing it again. That kind of lust gets out of control and you’ll end up scorche

Author: Jennifer Apodaca
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MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."BELINDA: He was

Author: Billy London
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Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--o

Author: Joseph Conrad
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He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his elemen

Author: Robin Sloan
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There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.

Author: Clifford Cohen
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Two types of dust I require to wipe my sin

Author: Munia Khan
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She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and ne

Author: Rainbow Rowell
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Author: Bobby Darnell
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Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege—God wants our fellowship.

Author: Billy Graham
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be intere

Author: G. K. Chesterton
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To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main characte

Author: Dan Wells
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Author: Fernando Pessoa
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Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first

Author: Jennifer Lane
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At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than a

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
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When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.

Author: Hannah Arendt
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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense l

Author: Erich Fromm
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc

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Yes, our goal as Christians should be to do away with the things in our world that keep people from

Author: Holly Sprink
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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social an

Author: Rosalyn S. Yalow
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The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my exp

Author: Tony Dungy
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Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It'sa Maxocracy.

Author: James Patterson
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The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an

Author: Chris Hedges
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Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
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It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so

Author: Yassin Hall
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World gives everything to those who don’t need it. (Matthew Effect). More you have it, more they giv

Author: Hemant Pandey
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I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.'

Author: Michael Moore
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I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

Author: Luffina Lourduraj
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Author: Lorde
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When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all t

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Author: Alberto Manguel
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Author: Ray Bradbury
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If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other per

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about

Author: Neil Gaiman
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Author: George Orwell
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I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. Th

Author: Connie Willis
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As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Author: Julius Caesar
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in sil

Author: William S. Burroughs
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You've got to be in it to win it

Author: David Fuentes
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Author: George Eliot
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The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like

Author: Lance Conrad
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As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful he

Author: James E. Faust
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Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know

Author: Anthony Bourdain
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I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of bel

Author: Christian Louboutin
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Author: Alexander Pope
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Don’t let society’s labelshold you back. If you have atrue passion for somethingwhether its sports,

Author: Alison G. Bailey
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Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were bor

Author: Mandy Hale
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Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.

Author: T. Rafael Cimino
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He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and

Author: Donna Lynn Hope
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Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.

Author: Maddy Malhotra
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I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of West

Author: Amy Chua
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or

Author: Thomas Hobbes
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Being in love is not always being happy but being happy is always being in love

Author: Hisham Fawzi
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It is an honorable charge to shine the lightand stand up for what is true, just, and right.Guardians

Author: Molly Friedenfeld
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Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,Unless you find the fine line...and erase it

Author: C. Elizabeth
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A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the t

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Author: Martin Luther
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I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but

Author: Donald Antrim
Quote #15314

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a comp

Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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I see your painas clearly as I feel my own.I will share your burden so you feel it less.Do not hate

Author: Kamand Kojouri
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I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential moth

Author: Helen Hayes
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We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Ev

Author: Hilary Winston
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To misuse wealth is a great fault.

Author: Dada Bhagwan
Quote #161836

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no

Author: J.M. Barrie
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To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To b

Author: Harshit Walia
Quote #413094

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the se

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problem

Author: Jeff Hawkins
Quote #124165

Aye, well, it’s like a battle. Ya lay yer plans, then when they go wrong, ya make things up as ya go

Author: Dani Harper
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been

Author: Rahm Emanuel
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Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unli

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Quote #133429

Living Life God's way is living the Beautiful Life.

Author: Phebe Olaniran
Quote #121517

When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Wor

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #356831

A moment in time is never dead.

Author: Khalid Masood
Quote #201404

The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But d

Author: Ben Mitchell
Quote #305489

Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and uncondition

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #3721

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Author: John Berger
Quote #138227

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

Author: Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Quote #37741

Happiness is very simple. To be happy, think happiness.

Author: Debasish Mridha