Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Author: Jean de la Bruyere

Author: Jean de la Bruyere

Quote #42734

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Author: Dani Harper
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Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

Author: Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Quote #117681

To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that th

Author: Dexter Palmer
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, t

Author: Margaret Drabble
Quote #13472

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Author: D. Antoinette Foy
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All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flick

Author: John A. Ashley
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It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man wh

Author: Iris Murdoch
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Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasi

Author: Alex Lane
Quote #502962

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just gratefu

Author: Niecy Nash
Quote #87211

I've learned a lot of things this year...not everyone who smiles at you is your friend. Fear really

Author: Iva Ursano
Quote #497122

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're p

Author: Anthony Mackie
Quote #63040

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, li

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quote #73436

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Author: Unknown
Quote #96480

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically,

Author: Michele Jennae
Quote #385905

I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valia

Author: T.T. Escurel
Quote #151211

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that

Author: Unknown
Quote #11264

There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.

Author: James Runcie
Quote #135038

Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWit

Author: Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Quote #338481

You will be very visible in the company photo, also the website and any other marketing materials. T

Author: Baratunde R. Thurston
Quote #455409

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle

Author: Andrea Hirata
Quote #77551

The problems changed, but people were the same

Author: Dorothy Gilman
Quote #153063

You ought to conquer the obstacle to achieve the goal.

Author: Unknown
Quote #200646

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' ap

Author: Holly Black
Quote #368783

Y are you called the cheese man?

Author: Barbara Park
Quote #275982

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to rec

Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Quote #426475

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Author: The Weeknd
Quote #277025

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it's like

Author: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Quote #376628

I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...

Author: Love The Stacks Bookstore
Quote #133054

God's grace of forgiveness is greater than all sins.

Author: Unknown
Quote #357212

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it’s easy to tell. The design ce

Author: Erika Hall
Quote #317408

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take

Author: Jessica Livingston
Quote #355396

Learn today so that you may live tomorrow

Author: Chris Bradford
Quote #337634

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Quote #377474

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth

Author: Brent Weeks
Quote #327447

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I

Author: Mary E. DeMuth
Quote #382408

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote #493260

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Author: Mario Andretti
Quote #178856

The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do.

Author: Thomm Quackenbush
Quote #411931

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carr

Author: Walter Lippmann
Quote #152404

Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not; if you believe it, then to you it become

Author: Stella Payton
Quote #369206

The best defense is a good offense.

Author: Jack Dempsey
Quote #301937

The only difference between people who say they cannot perceive interdimensionally and people who co

Author: Atala Dorothy Toy
Quote #226475

Humility is realm of a humble heart.

Author: Unknown
Quote #462163

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous

Author: Nick Cave
Quote #163472

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past yo

Author: Ryohgo Narita
Quote #348167

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I pl

Author: Andy Couturier
Quote #413708

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Author: George Eliot
Quote #487677

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're no

Author: Eve Ensler
Quote #371302

Everyone acted like they knew so much about the war. But none of them really knew anything besides w

Author: Clint Van Winkle
Quote #490874

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundre

Author: Barton Gellman
Quote #375624

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rathe

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote #461556

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaf

Author: Nadia Giosia
Quote #419258

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of gen

Author: E. E. Schumacher
Quote #281300

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

Author: Dave Eggers
Quote #392657

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quote #378430

How can I explain this? Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates?You are

Author: Francesca Marciano
Quote #475705

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represen

Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Quote #382577

I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him in

Author: Kandi Steiner
Quote #335114

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to b

Author: Sheila Jeffreys
Quote #504604

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tal

Author: Madeleine Albright
Quote #241309

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #300050

I told you. . .you belong in a castle.

Author: Evette Davis
Quote #492693

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Author: James Hillman
Quote #78498

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of de

Author: Dag Hammarskjöld
Quote #85586

Most of the people goes mad over politics which benefits just few people

Author: D.Sandeep
Quote #330752

My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in com

Author: John Ball
Quote #79647

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

Author: Munia Khan
Quote #192819

It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could si

Author: Blakney Francis
Quote #152920

You have only one life, don’t waste your life, fulfilling others dream.

Author: Unknown
Quote #5173

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote #195190

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

Author: Marty Rubin
Quote #369827

Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.

Author: Yarro Rai
Quote #321565

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to

Author: Aldous Huxley
Quote #283763

I mostly hope you think I miss you and in the end you hope you'll get me, but that's fantasy, untrue

Author: Phar West Nagle
Quote #167025

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction wi

Author: Michael R. Solomon
Quote #222203

There is no real conflict between nationalism and globalism. On the contrary: It is to the extent th

Author: Nicos Hadjicostis
Quote #466403

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you ca

Author: Mike Birbiglia
Quote #296566

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a colle

Author: Andrea T. Goeglein
Quote #470092

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Quote #492534

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Author: John Florio
Quote #94793

The greatest divinities of the soul are life, love and light.

Author: Unknown
Quote #183820

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started wit

Author: Hugh Howey
Quote #416372

By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love an

Author: E. M. Bounds
Quote #169190

If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle th

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #91197

You can't see beauty with miserable eyes.

Author: H.G. Wells
Quote #195450

Quentin quieted and watched her for a moment, hungrily, like he was trying to memorize every detail.

Author: Seanan McGuire
Quote #199272

Truth always prevails. Both divine and devil are two sides of the same coin. Rather, devil is in the

Author: Vishwas Chavan
Quote #455089

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, t

Author: Josh Radnor
Quote #14568

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are

Author: Stormie Omartian
Quote #197157

You are what you allow the Lord to make you.

Author: Chris Heimerdinger
Quote #295922

Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon a real drago

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Quote #332222

Is she a friend of yours?”“No,” Diana said flatly. “She’s my mother.

Author: Erin O'Riordan
Quote #378082

...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

Author: George Orwell
Quote #400191

She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whist

Author: Richelle Mead
Quote #195995

Not many people understood the inherent pain of a career in heroics. Your body aches from the demand

Author: Shirin Dubbin
Quote #473644

Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard.

Author: Sean Berdy
Quote #75506

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

Author: Nicole Richie
Quote #185869

I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?

Author: Ashley Ormon