All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I don't think each of us receives one harvest only--an after-death sort of payment for services rend

Author: Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
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Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a go

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I thi

Author: L.M. Montgomery
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Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unab

Author: Clyde Edgerton
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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to ta

Author: Agatha Christie
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Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he s

Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
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But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts benea

Author: Michelle Richmond
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Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.

Author: Stephen Richards
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Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree

Author: Sheila Jackson Lee
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale
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Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

Author: Jeane Westin
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Meeting you was fate..Becoming your friend was a choice..But falling in love with you I had no contr

Author: Teresa Conroy
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Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practic

Author: Widad Akreyi
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Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.You will have your ups and downsand moments of terrorand brief m

Author: Kate McGahan
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They thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures

Author: Don Marquis
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It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn’t

Author: Steve Maraboli
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Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea o

Author: Jonathan Santlofer
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...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as

Author: R.M. Hare
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I improvise therefore I exist!

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
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Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is o

Author: Craig Groeschel
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Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job

Author: Mark Haddon
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Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wa

Author: Jim Butcher
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A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may

Author: T Jay Taylor
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Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.

Author: Lauren Conrad
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The Planet depends upon you, Rider of the Ancient Years!

Author: Nishi Singh
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My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty an

Author: Christine Fonseca
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Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an att

Author: David McRaney
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Every woman has a distinctive sense of beauty which is uniquely charming and euphoric.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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You can’t know this right now, but…your ragged, rugged honesty…your crazy, passionate, naked vulnera

Author: Jacob Nordby
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The Lord is my strong shield.

Author: Unknown
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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radica

Author: Rowan Williams
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You won't ever know, unless you try!

Author: Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowle

Author: Frank Herbert
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I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology

Author: George Lucas
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions

Author: George Bernard Shaw
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There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm

Author: Cornel West
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You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Author: Taylor Swift
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A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.

Author: Todd Stocker
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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practic

Author: Pete Rose
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Author: Lin Yutang
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As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we

Author: Dosung Yoo
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First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the

Author: bell hooks
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I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those peop

Author: JoJo
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Author: Art Buchwald
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

Author: Edmund White
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All compliments are not created equal. Some may change the trajectory of a person’s life, while othe

Author: Susan C. Young
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I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. “I loved him. That’s what dumb girls do.”“You aren’t du

Author: Alex Rosa
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Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow wi

Author: George Sand
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I was a prisoner of events

Author: Nigel Blundell
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In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the

Author: Michael Munro
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You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show someb

Author: Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgivenes

Author: Dennis R. Miller
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Ah-ha, but those with enthusiasm and a high vibrational output still managed to do well even in that

Author: Stephen Richards
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Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. Add a hundred and twenty billion dol

Author: Hannah Rothschild
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...You are here again,so realistic,just, the golden dawn takes you away in the morning...Be here now

Author: Zorica Savron
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Author: Roland Barthes
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The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart.

Author: Mya Waechtler
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Everyday is a good day, even when things are hard because we are still here, still fighting to live

Author: Lisa Kinsella
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I need them and they need me to need them

Author: Rosie Thomas
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I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and storie

Author: Louis Theroux
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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
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The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties

Author: Auliq-Ice
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Let us find the way to the peaceLe us make peace, the way of lifeLet us sing the song of peaceLet us

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you

Author: Tom Waits
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Language is an inventory of human experience.

Author: L. W. Lockhart
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From dreams reality is born.

Author: Sheila Parker
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When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because,

Author: C.M. Stunich
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Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Author: Anne Lamott
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor

Author: Victor Hugo
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If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new hous

Author: Mandy Hale
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I’ve come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo long…To the abandoned fieldsthe trees

Author: Wendell Berry
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A muffin what? Are you asking me to eat you or something?

Author: Y.M. Nelson
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I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think hus

Author: Sloane Crosley
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Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”He winces. “We didn’t even g

Author: Colleen Hoover
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Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thous

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time s

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my i

Author: Melody Lee
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".

Author: Dorothy Parker
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Author: Charles Evans Hughes
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Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

Author: Unknown
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Death is the destroyer and giver of sense.

Author: Andy Harglesis
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I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all,’ and

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure

Author: Radclyffe Hall
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Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude bu

Author: John Grant
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Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better tha

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best an

Author: Lin Dan
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain

Author: Abraham Lincoln
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When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.

Author: Crystal Woods
Quote #240754

It is the thinnest lines that define us.

Author: David Macinnis Gill
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You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted

Author: Kelle Hampton
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Great victories and mountain experiences are invariably followed by vulnerabilities and emotional va

Author: Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
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I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.

Author: MEET SHAH
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Smile: Happiness Is Right Under Your Nose!

Author: Mary Anne Puleio