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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE We have been seeing this movement for some time now - our hotels are full, our restaurants, the trac...
FRANKIE BERTRAND We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Words speak to the mind through the ears; actions speak to the mind through the eye
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them tim...
DADA VASWANI You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA Time is an important ingredient for growth, but sometimes we pass through time and get better; at ot...
HENRY CLOUD When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE Economic, social and cultural rights are often overlooked when we are seeing rights through a politi...
JOSEPH SCHECHLA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All these tribal housing projects get our people off the land and put them into these little develop...
JUSTIN WILLEY We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Under tournament regulations we have to name our team by noon yesterday and while we are happy to do...
ROB ANDREW Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing ...
JAMES LOVELOCK So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I do think we are going to see more combinations as time goes by. What we are seeing now are the fir...
ALLEN NOGEE We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievo...
CAMILLA BOWLES We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievo...
CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN Of course we do, ... I know that it is going to be difficult, but we are by no means out of it. Our ...
DENNIS SETZER As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the l...
JASON SILVA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of ...
SOCRATES What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We h...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl o...
SORIN CERIN And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that...
ELIAS HICKS This is a first-time effort by our students to put on such an event, and they are really excited abo...
BOB OWEN We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo...
ANGIE KARAN If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him
SUNDAY ADELAJA We came out of last year believing in our charismatic lead and seeing real evidence that an audience...
KEVIN REILLY By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have p...
ADAM DELL We're sticking to what we can infer from our instrument, and we are not directly seeing temperatures...
JOHN SPENCER Our buildings are really needed by our public. We have four different categories that we put the dif...
BETH GLITT Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart...
AVIJEET DAS We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwilli...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive wha...
MARY MCCARTHY There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as...
NICKY RAVEN There is an opportunity of which we have been reminded by our local distributors for what we call vo...
GEOFF ROSS How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT I am happy for our kids, they are an outstanding bunch who have put in the time and effort this seas...
PAT OLMI We are by law required to provide certain public facilities. Water and sewer facilities require larg...
STEVE ATKINS I think they are getting tired of seeing us and I think we are tired of seeing them. We've had some ...
STEVE HUNTER We are hearing of people going back to work who were unemployed for awhile and we are seeing (supply...
ANDREW GUCCIONE We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie ...
ELISA MARIE HOPKINS There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...
JOHN GREEN There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...
JOHN GREEN Land and sea.
We may think of them as opposites; as complements. But there is a difference in h...
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT

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Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

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