As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

Author: Victoria Pendleton

Author: Victoria Pendleton

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Drink from my emotional offerings.

Author: Truth Devour
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To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Author: Gregory Baum
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He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown a

Author: Ashtavakra Gita
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A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The ro

Author: Martin Robinson
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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by

Author: Ernest Gaines
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It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.

Author: Anonymous
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I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in

Author: Donald Miller
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Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

Author: Maria Elena
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There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything

Author: Nikki Rowe
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In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Ac

Author: Avinash Advani
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My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas

Author: Sophie Kinsella
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Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace b

Author: Mango Wodzak
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Author: Alasdair Gray
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Author: Mason Cooley
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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the wor

Author: Ray Bradbury
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I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... no one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffe

Author: Inio Asano
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Author: Abu Bakr
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He’s silent for a few seconds staring back at me with his soulful blue eyes. Even though he never sa

Author: Sheena Hutchinson
Quote #16513

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Author: Anton Chekhov
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The best gift you can give me is a book.

Author: Unknown
Quote #463522

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m

Author: Oscar de la Renta
Quote #71496

Both positive and negative thinking can be formed in a child

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the w

Author: Joanne Harris
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Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketi

Author: John Patrick
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A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more e

Author: Laura Lam
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Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in

Author: R.P. Falconer
Quote #213723

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

Author: Unknown
Quote #391957

Because it's all about the journey...

Author: Selena Fulton
Quote #164653

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world.

Author: Sina Queyras
Quote #208174

He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare.

Author: Poppet
Quote #421527

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Author: Homer
Quote #302592

To be self-compassionate is not to be self-indulgent or self-centred. A major component of self-comp

Author: Christopher Dines
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Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a

Author: Giotto di Bondone
Quote #199705

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Author: Jean Toomer
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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful

Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and f

Author: Crystal Evans
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Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled w

Author: G.G. Renee Hill
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It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hel

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #239194

I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? K

Author: Unknown
Quote #327898

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Author: Mark Simpson
Quote #296660

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to av

Author: Thomas Hughes
Quote #411668

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Author: Wendell Phillips
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The fundamental_x001b_ premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to t

Author: George Stamatis
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Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperament

Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago

Author: Willie Geist
Quote #213040

The power of your intentions has a greater impact on your life than your actions.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #161979

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tear

Author: L.J. Smith
Quote #419417

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impen

Author: Sebastian K. Young
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How to live spiritually:- Love and appreciate yourself- Be honest with yourself- Express yourself tr

Author: Réné Gaudette
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This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football

Author: Jerry Jones
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The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not fo

Author: Shannon Huffman Polson
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There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe te

Author: Carl Sagan
Quote #318761

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of

Author: Charles Beaumont
Quote #500928

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Quote #150435

Dear God, Lisa, give me back my peace of mind!

Author: Sara Craven
Quote #503929

I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I

Author: Rita Ora
Quote #163644

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-bein

Author: bell hooks
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The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Author: Corey Taylor
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Beyond the limit of pain, it is longer painful.

Author: Unknown
Quote #456916

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Author: Norah Jones
Quote #194800

I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an ang

Author: Libba Bray
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The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and bec

Author: Rob Brydon
Quote #17811

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

Author: Stephen King
Quote #139512

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #406149

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing

Author: Rollo May
Quote #283986

When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would hav

Author: Emma Forrest
Quote #463780

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to

Author: Indra Devi
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The right rules of engagement means giving our forward commanders the authority and flexibility to t

Author: Ryan Zinke
Quote #200693

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but mos

Author: Dave Brenner
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That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject w

Author: Marilynne Robinson
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Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

Author: Marisa de los Santos
Quote #398100

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we’re sleeping,There’s no es

Author: Jay Woodman
Quote #204295

Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. Y

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now

Author: Nina Simone
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There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do not

Author: Dr. Perle Thompson
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On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the l

Author: David McCullough
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The sun stopped shining for me is all.

Author: Nina LaCour
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t

Author: Unknown
Quote #277961

Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.

Author: Courtney M. Privett
Quote #307742

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any w

Author: Scott Hahn
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Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

Author: George Whitefield
Quote #414137

People can bear anything.

Author: Philip Slater
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Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.

Author: Kate Reid
Quote #167197

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Author: Theodor Reik
Quote #357956

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Lo

Author: Anne Rice
Quote #18801

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Author: Richard Branson
Quote #256251

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill,

Author: John Muir
Quote #81832

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep

Author: Tom Robbins
Quote #489970

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should

Author: Alice Hoffman
Quote #331622

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #420030

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Author: Joseph Roux
Quote #376059

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and

Author: Unknown
Quote #209939

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

Author: Michael Cunningham
Quote #388175

Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using i

Author: Denis Waitley
Quote #116143

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Author: Felix O. Hartmann
Quote #325958

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deter

Author: Idries Shah
Quote #374831

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the

Author: Will Durant
Quote #339850

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart

Author: Amber Lin