A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Author: Homer

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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Author: John Lithgow
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We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we

Author: Nicole Krauss
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at

Author: Lindsey O'Connor
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Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

Author: Jennifer Allwood
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...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and Am

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they w

Author: Charbel Tadros
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That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I

Author: David Levithan
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Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to wri

Author: Corbin Bleu
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No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of

Author: John Updike
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Author: Tennessee Williams
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if

Author: Ian Mckellen
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Blessings never come in pairs misfortunes never come alone.

Author: Unknown
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Ah, my wee sprite." He released the lock of hair and leaned closer. "If learning to fly is your desi

Author: Desiree Williams
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The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every ti

Author: Elliott Abrams
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If you on the wrong path, change and travel on right direction.

Author: Unknown
Quote #197968

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad ad

Author: John Crowder
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But one has to ask: why do the big things at such a high cost? I chose the quiet life. I like the id

Author: Jaroslav Kalfar
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Reeve shakes his head and exhales loudly. “That’s not what I’m saying and you know it!” He looks awa

Author: Jenny Han
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Shall I prick my prick as well?

Author: George R.R. Martin
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It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever happen

Author: Brownell Landrum
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I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Author: David James Duncan
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If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowher

Author: Sophie Hannah
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If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

Author: Rick Riordan
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To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I learn, I earn.

Author: Santosh Kalwar
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Maybe i am doing right , maybe i am doing wrong but at least i'm trying

Author: Jameel
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest com

Author: Leo Buscaglia
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When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.

Author: Daniel Wallace
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In life, you can either hate yourself or like yourself. If you choose to hate yourself, your life wi

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
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I read your diary. I KNOW

Author: Mary Papas
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Author: Beatrice Potter Webb
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It is not the quantity of your thoughts but the quality of your thoughts that make the difference. T

Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Author: Thomas Friedman
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what mus

Author: Robert Owen
Quote #223321

I' is nothing it just a thought..........!

Author: Sushil Singh
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If somebody ask me to chose my home in the whole world i would chose your arms

Author: pooja bagul
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical

Author: Betty Friedan
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When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest o

Author: Ryne Sandberg
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I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psy

Author: James Dashner
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We must dare to be true to ourselves – to see ourselves as we really are.

Author: Annika Sorensen
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If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will l

Author: James Purdy
Quote #37405

Woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word f

Author: Ava
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Life and calling are founded on relationships with other people.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance t

Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote #165205

The value system of any society comes from the homes.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. T

Author: Mark Lawrence
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She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

Author: Veronics Roth
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Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t ha

Author: Nate Ragolia
Quote #415102

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's the light. There's the dark. And there's that bit in between... where you're trying to find

Author: Isis Sky
Quote #500641

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing.

Author: Chris Pine
Quote #112501

A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.

Author: Charles Olson
Quote #75494

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Author: Jim Henson
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We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #313183

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters

Author: Pope Francis
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...The miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth. Walk in such a way that

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Quote #84723

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly hal

Author: Ron Paul
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Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’

Author: Greg Egan
Quote #106921

You have a light in your heart and that is your love, it can shine like a sun to enlighten the whole

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #58603

Your calling is your natural area of concentration

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #259772

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #5840

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Author: William Faulkner
Quote #57065

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Author: John O'Donohue
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I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like th

Author: Jasmine Warga
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When you wake each day, it is your choice if you are going to use your attitude to your advantage or

Author: Susan C. Young
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Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize t

Author: Temple Grandin
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Watching From Withing protagonist Dr. Jesse Baine says, "The only place I can fathom that is truly p

Author: Daniel LaMonte
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Being culturally aware and respectful of others’ cultures will help you to keep the habit of making

Author: Susan C. Young
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Success can locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But you are responsible

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #83023

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Author: Tamora Pierce
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I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare alread

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote #64435

...Every life contains a novel.

Author: Elin Hilderbrand
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I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always

Author: Susan C. Young
Quote #372513

Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Author: Julieanne O'Connor
Quote #439010

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Author: Shah Rukh Khan
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My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

Author: J.K. Rowling
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I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

Author: Alice Hoffman
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At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You tak

Author: Lionel Suggs
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You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

Author: Tama Kieves
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We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is

Author: Flora Nwapa
Quote #31223

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Quote #140716

I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank G

Author: Laura Marling
Quote #66138

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Author: Steve Berry
Quote #382193

I understand that comes with the territory, and that celebrities have a contract with the public: th

Author: Mara Wilson
Quote #278011

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Author: Mason Cooley
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Author: John Henry Newman
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I might be a very weird lover

Author: Unknown
Quote #453053

I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the femini

Author: Roxane Gay
Quote #308166

Time' is actually the best gift, given to us by our Creator.

Author: Norhafsah Hamid
Quote #244124

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Author: Jacob M. Appel
Quote #181551

The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare sp

Author: Ian McEwan
Quote #416993

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote #15979

Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with

Author: Tracey Bond
Quote #343264

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all

Author: Peter Høeg
Quote #396944

A company has integrity when its words and actions consistently match the branding effort.

Author: Maggie Macnab