As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Author: Woody Allen

Author: Woody Allen

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Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals

Author: Thomas à Kempis
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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To stand a storm and get blown away by her whisper.

Author: Saleem Sharma
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As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failur

Author: Gregory V. Diehl
Quote #457988

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of s

Author: Luanne Rice
Quote #115079

The time you spend loving is the most valuable time of your life.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #201020

Get out of my chair, dillhole!

Author: A.A. Milne
Quote #191078

They say love is eternal...They say love is enduring. It always protects,always trust,always hopes,a

Author: K.J. Kilton
Quote #134146

May God gives you power to accomplish all the great things you were destiny for.

Author: Unknown
Quote #53545

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

Author: Carlos Wallace
Quote #182202

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeli

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Quote #449755

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Author: Rosa Luxemburg
Quote #13342

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Author: John Paul II
Quote #200275

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memor

Author: Annie Dillard
Quote #209928

Deprived of magic, wonder wanes

Author: John J. Geddes
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---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, ten

Author: Anthony Doerr
Quote #151310

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your enti

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #136773

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is w

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #165198

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

Author: Iain Pears
Quote #180375

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it wil

Author: Siméon Denis Poisson
Quote #90508

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Author: William Carlos Williams
Quote #79027

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communi

Author: Andrew Dalby
Quote #437372

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Car

Author: Molly Ivins
Quote #312182

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Quote #207699

He opened his mouth and let it loose, the blast of cold air freezing the Dark Ones instantaneously.

Author: Donna Grant
Quote #9304

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand do

Author: David Wood
Quote #111338

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Author: M. Scott Peck
Quote #259403

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the e

Author: Ervin Staub
Quote #3591

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

Author: Roy T. Bennett
Quote #258304

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif

Author: Max Lucado
Quote #268795

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Author: Antonin Scalia
Quote #421360

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man

Author: George Orwell
Quote #80110

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside

Author: Anna Godbersen
Quote #503781

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love

Author: Imelda Marcos
Quote #278847

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can

Author: Subodh Gupta
Quote #485176

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Author: Chris Brown
Quote #99737

Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does

Author: Dada Bhagwan
Quote #87484

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Author: Tina Brown
Quote #84389

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make y

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Quote #375544

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

Author: Toba Beta
Quote #60478

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

Author: L.H. Thomson
Quote #392703

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and m

Author: Richelle Mead
Quote #341648

If you don’t know how to get success, then follow a person who knows it and you will be there.

Author: Himanshu Bisht
Quote #152287

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Author: Monica Ali
Quote #445552

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my inte

Author: Donald Hall
Quote #136113

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive re

Author: David Amerland
Quote #390295

Become a gift in the lives of others and you will always be well received.

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #334022

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

Author: Christopher Bollen
Quote #378222

Day drinking with a broken heart is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports, tryna leave the c

Author: Frida R.
Quote #318733

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
Quote #289518

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

Author: Abel Paulino
Quote #91517

The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #438961

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Be

Author: Myles Munroe
Quote #367167

Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #39784

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som

Author: Mitch Albom
Quote #450788

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as

Author: Josefa Iloilo
Quote #62366

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Re

Author: Hope Jahren
Quote #328935

Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; i

Author: Inazo Nitobe
Quote #493806

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not ab

Author: Dalai Lama
Quote #91925

Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from

Author: Unknown
Quote #354006

Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity.

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #166633

Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have

Author: Joseph A. Micucci
Quote #123770

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

Author: A.A. Bell
Quote #198801

The universe is eternal; every person appears in the stream of time, and then disappears. The ego do

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
Quote #87123

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #246447

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself a

Author: Kingsley Amis
Quote #4552

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Author: Charles M. Schulz
Quote #479735

I love movies.

Author: Greg Boyle
Quote #396536

I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try.

Author: Maribel C. Pagan
Quote #48643

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

Author: Will Smith
Quote #442534

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up alway

Author: Shoshannah Stern
Quote #79433

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse se

Author: Sir Laurens van der Post
Quote #262792

He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.

Author: Jonas Eriksson
Quote #386320

I change by not changing at all.

Author: Pearl Jam
Quote #33678

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even l

Author: David Wroblewski
Quote #43295

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule

Author: Edmund White
Quote #174888

Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought a

Author: Matthew Donnelly
Quote #78483

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Author: Thomas Hobbes
Quote #29754

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Quote #339767

The only thing that can hurt me now is the thought of never knowing this feeling again. To never be

Author: Shelly Thacker
Quote #397421

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Author: Orson Scott Card
Quote #270598

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of he

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Quote #421744

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Quote #503243

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States int

Author: Milton Friedman
Quote #263475

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corpor

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #140452

I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

Author: Felicia Day
Quote #211879

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #355140

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

Author: John le Carré
Quote #55713

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life.

Author: Saumya Kaushik...
Quote #371667

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark roc

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Quote #8994

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Quote #42376

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Author: Dana Stabenow
Quote #290000

A judge who doesn't feel empathy for the accused, becomes executioner

Author: Válgame
Quote #405406

You are all you will ever have for certain.

Author: June Havoc
Quote #40151

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

Author: Bahá'u'lláh
Quote #230453

The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with thei

Author: Bradley B. Dalina
Quote #341409

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Author: Carla H. Krueger
Quote #452310

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life

Author: John Andre
Quote #153745

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly," she said, "provi

Author: Mary Balogh