As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Author: Seamus Heaney

Author: Seamus Heaney

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You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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600Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store.

Author: Toni Sorenson
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people,

Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay att

Author: Molly Ivins
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And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist a

Author: Richard Bode
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I don't think I am the type of person who thinks, 'I dunno. Things are getting on top of me.' It's n

Author: Diego Costa
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I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciou

Author: Jimmy Chin
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Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feig

Author: Michelle Franklin
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It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and

Author: Cybill Shepherd
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Why haven't they killed us yet?""Our lives aren't important. For some reason, it's always been about

Author: Julie Kagawa
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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we

Author: Unknown
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My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the tr

Author: Patricia Briggs
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That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

Author: Jean Oram
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The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.

Author: Dragos Bratasanu
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What's more toxic than what they have done, think, or have said about you is how you let your mind r

Author: Chinonye J. Chidolue
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The most important principle in your relationship with time is that time is perishable. No one can s

Author: Gudjon Bergmann
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You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries

Author: Athol Fugard
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I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in

Author: Ricky Schroder
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them.

Author: A. R. Rahman
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The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
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Drab?" Soldier yelled. "I'll give you drab. Beat her, would you? Beat my wife? I'll feed your head t

Author: Kim Hunter
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Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

Author: Richard Simmons
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We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in ov

Author: Frank Luntz
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We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity.

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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Life’s just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save,Which turns to be as great as hand

Author: Tatyana K. Varenko
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At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or

Author: Lawrence Kohlberg
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People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

Author: Amy Sedaris
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When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurate

Author: Michael Crichton
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Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and do

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

Author: Nathan Hill
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Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched sli

Author: Betty Friedan
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Our journey is our breath that makes up the seconds, the emotions that are in the minutes, and our p

Author: Forrest Curran
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The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing

Author: David Sedaris
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When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I

Author: Fernando Pessoa
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Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us

Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber
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My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the

Author: Kate Alcott
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you

Author: Bill Hybels
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... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because

Author: Heidi Julavits
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If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human inter

Author: José Antonio Bowen
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I used to play golf, but found it did not give me vitality because it's a slothful game...Nine holes

Author: LKY on LIFE
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Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the cho

Author: Lois Greiman
Quote #342865

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

Author: Shūsaku Endō
Quote #387190

I found that old Solomon proved it fair, That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.

Author: Robert Burns
Quote #466531

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgra

Author: Mo Farah
Quote #230825

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

Author: Brennan Manning
Quote #264657

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to sa

Author: Jonathan Friesen
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Author: Gillian Flynn
Quote #93874

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

Author: pooja bagul
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A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Author: Richard Stallman
Quote #107498

For peace, living in harmony is essential.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #242191

It may hurt today, but it will get better. Time passes, and people forget. It won't be long before y

Author: Trudi Trueit
Quote #416737

Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.

Author: Russian proverb
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I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks w

Author: Toni Morrison
Quote #85694

Politics, it's all corrupt!

Author: Steven Magee
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Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside some

Author: Helen Simonson
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It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional

Author: Flannery O'Connor
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My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

Author: A.J. Jacobs
Quote #317162

Next-generation technology, she thought. A few extra processors, and it starts getting a high opinio

Author: K.B. Spangler
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Author: Jean de la Bruyere
Quote #317701

It's Not How Good You Are... But How Good They Think You Are - That Matters!

Author: Dan Blaze
Quote #276551

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #138443

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everyt

Author: Edward Lewellen
Quote #180714

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you

Author: John Irving
Quote #397068

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

Author: Tennessee Williams
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an

Author: Walt Whitman
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If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the

Author: Simeon Strunsky
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To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, asha

Author: Erich Fromm
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Purpose is the essence of life

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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You drool in your sleep- Annabeth Chase

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #31115

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Author: Elizabeth Wein
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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not what we have that matters

Author: Unknown
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There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of

Author: Radhe Maa
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When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want

Author: Carlos Ghosn
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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

Author: William S. Burroughs
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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Author: Walt Disney Company
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls

Author: Orson Scott Card
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We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to b

Author: Ellen J. Barrier
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The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals,

Author: Sulak Sivaraksa
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Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

Author: Bible
Quote #64482

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in s

Author: Anne Lamott
Quote #297491

To do something very common, in my own way.

Author: Adrienne Rich
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Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #411505

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Author: Unknown
Quote #42091

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Quote #51374

A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "

Author: Sanhita Baruah
Quote #312153

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness w

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never ha

Author: J. Everett Prewitt
Quote #16257

We fail to often realize that every man has an innate worth.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing

Author: Cameron Dokey
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I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE

Author: Saaskia Aark-Bennett
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I want to apologize to all the womeni have called prettybefore i've called them intelligent or brave

Author: Rupi Kaur
Quote #279757

Blessed are they that have faith for they shall take steps like a blind man!

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You can't have a heart attack and leave me an orphan. You know I'd just blow all our money on drugs

Author: Robison Wells
Quote #59405

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Author: Rick Riordan
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The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response

Author: Dylan Evans