A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the str...
OS GUINNESS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a...
NED VIZZINI Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united...
TOM TANCREDO [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its o...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW This isn't solely a matter of United States concerns with Syria. Syria has problems with all of its ...
SEAN MCCORMACK The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears
BARBARA SIZEMORE Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacr...
EMILE DURKHEIM She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The activities in a society is determined by its establishment
SUNDAY ADELAJA You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
NORMAN DOUGLAS My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, de...
SARA BAUME No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability ...
IDA B. WELLS The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
MAHATMA GANDHI The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GHANDI The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if ...
VICTOR HUGO What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred
HEINRICH HEINE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t...
SARA BAUME The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are t...
MAHATMA GANDHI Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A nation that judges it's well-being by the ups and downs of the stock market, is a nation that has ...
MUHAMMED HAIDER It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not...
NELSON MANDELA 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 You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
TAHANIE Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and f...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a...
R.A. SALVATORE The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the...
SARA BAUME Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my...
SARA BAUME But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothere...
SARA BAUME So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other...
SARA BAUME There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I d...
SARA BAUME I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other...
SARA BAUME Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the...
ANIBAL ACEVEDO VILA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MOHANDAS GANDHI The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ...
WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE Originality is undetected plagiarism.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good wil...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Out of the fragrant heart of bloom,
The bobolinks are singing;
Out of the fragrant heart of bl...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent...
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Is it the shrewd October wind
Brings the tears into her eyes?
Does it blow so strong that she ...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up wit...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The little wind that hardly shook
The silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about he...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I haven't done anything--yet.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS In New York City we need police officers to protect even the dead.
WILLIAM J. DEAN Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have no...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cru...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bull...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise o...
WILLIAM R. ALGER A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
WILLIAM R. ALGER He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
WILLIAM R. ALGER A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he sn...
WILLIAM R. ALGER The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
WILLIAM R. ALGER What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with de...
WILLIAM R. ALGER Words of love, are works of love.
WILLIAM R. ALGER The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
WILLIAM R. ALGER We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too nar...
WILLIAM R. ALGER An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyeli...
WILLIAM R. ALGER Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
WILLIAM R. ALGER False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
WILLIAM R. ALGER A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,--
Ah, ho...
WILLIAM R. ALGER After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's inde...
WILLIAM R. ALGER