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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.


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I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
F. L. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune
LUCAN He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON SR. I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY I always joke with (father) Les and his wife, asking them if they can kick out a couple more sons fo...
CHRIS WEST I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
VINCENT CASSEL I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
DANA BRUNETTI I have a dream today
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ARTHUR CAPLAN I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.
JAKE BUSEY Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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NEIL OLSSON Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
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JOYCE MEYER I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
WEN JIABAO I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
ALVEDA KING I have given them permission to talk to Karl.
JACK KVANCZ Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
J. PAUL GETTY I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outs...
MO UDALL I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.
JANINE TURNER I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??......
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C. JOYBELL C. Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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and
Just because you don't...
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JOHN M SHEEHAN My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any...
RAJNEESH Oh..please dont eat me, I have a wife and three kids...eat them!
HOMER SIMPSON I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and ca...
KIM ALEXIS I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I fe...
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SHANNON L. ALDER If I had known, I wouldn't have given them to him, even though he loved them.
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SARAH BRIGHTMAN You can't just hold people who don't have any direct responsibility and hold them just as hostages.
ZVI RISH I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.
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PATRICK HENRY Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.
C.J. MILBRANDT Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
EMMA SMITH Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
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KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
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LORI HANDELAND Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charit...
JULIA WARD HOWE Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST No, please don't eat me. I have a wife and kids,eat them. - Homer Simpson
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LINDA THOMPSON He wasn’t that careful, Lucan. I think you’ve got him mixed up with someone else.”

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J.A. HUSS I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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KRISTIN RATH If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.
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GEORGES BERNANOS Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.
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ZHANG ZIYI All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them whi...
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MARISSA MEYER I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort tha...
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam pa...
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN 'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Such crimes has superstition caused.
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