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Rowan Williams

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PAUL HANDLEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absenc...
RODRIGO DUTERTE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha...
NORA EPHRON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Well, you know, to put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis to show why it is moral...
BILL BENNETT Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and de...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE The public health component of a governor's budget is discretionary. It is always the public health ...
KIM ELLIOTT If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY While it's a vital component, we're not going to win the election on this alone.
FELIX SCHEIN Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is...
THOM YORKE Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER One of the aspects that makes this event even more credible is the educational component. Each year,...
VAUGHN HUDSPATH Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
GLORIA SWANSON The abundance of coal as a resource is a vital component to the U.S, so making it clean is a critica...
SCOTT TINKER Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. MENCKEN The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The common misconception is that women who like to be treated a certain way are high maintenance. It...
JOY MANISCALCO She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely spe...
ALBERT FINNEY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
AMY GOODMAN She genuinely cares about veterans and about their well-being. It's definitely very challenging work...
BETSY TOLSTEDT I think he's had the respect. A lot of guys talk about him. The media might not talk about him that ...
AARON GLENN We hear a lot of talk about public-private partnerships, and in its own way this is a perfect exampl...
BOB KOVITZ The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith,...
ELIHU ROOT I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument,
ALBERTO FUJIMORI Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property.
CHARLES SUMNER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself t...
JOHN ANTIL The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.
SANTOSH KALWAR A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of...
EDWARD SAPIR It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Bill Bennett's remarks are morally degenerate. It's a blatant wish for genocide. What's dangerous ab...
JESSE JACKSON

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VENUS WILLIAMS I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
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