As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Author: Gloria Swanson

Author: Gloria Swanson

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Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.

Author: C.J. Milbrandt
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent femal

Author: Elizabeth Peters
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Design is everything. Everything!

Author: Paul Rand
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the cond

Author: E.M. Forster
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Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you c

Author: Satyajit Ray
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a

Author: Pat Buckley
Quote #363108

I was a swan, but ripped apart and taped haphazardly back together again.

Author: Erin Bomboy
Quote #8688

Then why are you here?” Emma demanded. “Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met t

Author: Cassandra Clare
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...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...

Author: John Geddes
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A memory, long buried, sprang up of her father warning her never to cross the stream and go into the

Author: Donna Grant
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Author: Napoléon Bonaparte
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We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Author: Gloria Steinem
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru

Author: Alexander Pope
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People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get al

Author: Adam Bryant
Quote #396008

I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.

Author: Shannon A. Thompson
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As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffer

Author: Russell M. Nelson
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But, as Bruce Wayne will attest...you have to spend money to make money.

Author: Bruce Wayne
Quote #79121

The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the forc

Author: Daniel Polansky
Quote #256709

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #415466

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Author: Michelangelo
Quote #27898

Don’t dare to dream big, just dream BIG!

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #91253

How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she ha

Author: Milan Kundera
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In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writ

Author: Tonglin Lu
Quote #470887

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer.

Author: Sloane Crosley
Quote #318792

She offered her love to flawed broken souls and in that we found freedom.

Author: Sathyanath Nandakumar
Quote #334225

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived

Author: Seneca
Quote #62343

Just because 2 billion people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

Author: Neil A. Hogan
Quote #118910

Do not waste your life over working.

Author: Unknown
Quote #258328

God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don’t think he is a cheap party host with limited gr

Author: Hannah Brencher
Quote #96795

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Author: Albert Camus
Quote #114865

When kindness is your religion, then caring is your prayer.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #180405

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody

Author: Amit Kalantri
Quote #38031

..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d

Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote #4551

Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole

Author: Charles M. Schulz
Quote #111599

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every

Author: Terry Pratchett
Quote #489238

Who seeks shall find.

Author: Sophocles
Quote #61455

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. B

Author: Anaximander
Quote #418739

Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Quote #359999

If I had to offer up a one sentence definition of addiction, I'd call it a form of mourning for the

Author: Ann Marlowe
Quote #417215

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Author: Unknown
Quote #133603

How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ...

Author: Chris Damian
Quote #482691

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Author: Herodotus
Quote #286847

[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of gov

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote #416680

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of

Author: George Meredith
Quote #395048

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Author: Willa Cather
Quote #82041

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are swor

Author: Will Durant
Quote #444129

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are

Author: Roseanne Barr
Quote #282876

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

Author: Veronica Roth
Quote #420334

A great city a great solitude.

Author: Old proverb
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You’re going to show up to a duel, in the street, wearing Come F—k Me Heels?" — Bats 2015

Author: Fred Barnett
Quote #275239

Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the

Author: Kenneth Roberts
Quote #503026

People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them

Author: Susanna Kearsley
Quote #12430

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

Author: Suzy Kassem
Quote #310131

All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet

Author: Hunter S. Jones
Quote #337301

Be the story teller in your life...never let anyone dictate what you’re about.

Author: Robbie Thomas
Quote #125406

If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, a

Author: Delano Johnson
Quote #370369

When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them helpless.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #375705

Limitlessness is the emotion that sunny mornings evoke in me now. A new appreciation for the present

Author: Kaleb Kilton
Quote #94124

The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusio

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #310988

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaqu

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Quote #65833

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or w

Author: Sarah Dessen
Quote #349554

I went through a period where I couldn’t keep off the establishment’s roofs, it was a serious urge I

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #120605

I do not have to hear your most favourite music.I hear your sweet silent music all the time.Petra Ce

Author: Petra Hermans
Quote #27246

Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.

Author: Amber L. Johnson
Quote #109104

He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf

Author: Christopher Clark
Quote #302677

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible

Author: Roger Housden
Quote #458641

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Author: Maureen O'Hara
Quote #379384

Suffer of life face and fight!There is no such true happiness, when there is no such bitter passed i

Author: Jean Marquez
Quote #437603

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of m

Author: Geddy Lee
Quote #31188

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Author: John Guare
Quote #468412

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote #260059

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

Author: F. Sionil José
Quote #139059

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It w

Author: Ann Brashares
Quote #183898

Cried myself to sleep-woke up crying…

Author: JJM
Quote #238089

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw

Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement b

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #179944

Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.

Author: Unknown
Quote #307143

That's pretty hot," he said."Punching me in the eye?""Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of g

Author: Richelle Mead
Quote #493656

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing ac

Author: Brendan I. Koerner
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I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

Author: Haruki Murakami
Quote #314484

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms

Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Quote #286802

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

Author: Jeff Grubb
Quote #198681

I think weeping is orgasmic. The feeling from the origin of the tears to their end is orgasmic.

Author: Shivam Chaudhary
Quote #272006

Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

Author: Shinobu Ohtaka
Quote #110073

Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.

Author: Gayendra Abeywardane
Quote #39807

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Author: H.G. Wells
Quote #315331

Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.

Author: Jennifer Niven
Quote #6873

Love means never having to be apart

Author: James Patterson
Quote #444516

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions ha

Author: Steve Jobs
Quote #500708

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

Author: Marilyn Monroe
Quote #36814

They told me it was impossible so I tried and failed. Then I tried again and again until I made it p

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #298259

There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity a

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #15535

When following God, Zero we never find.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
Quote #184974

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since Go

Author: Charles Frazier
Quote #97721

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the futur

Author: Natasha Tsakos
Quote #470268

Dogs are my favorite people.

Author: Richard Dean Anderson
Quote #328355

Celebrate the life you have been gifted thus far, supporting the arrival of Christmas day.

Author: Eleesha
Quote #81947

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to ad

Author: Hany Ghoraba
Quote #43392

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one.

Author: Kimberly Black