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DALE CARNEGIE A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
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EMILY BRONTE A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
JUDITH MARTIN A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful
JUDITH S. MARIN He's obviously one person who has done something that no one on this team has done: He's won three S...
CURTIS MARTIN A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the o...
EMILY BRONTE A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
HELMUT SCHMIDT Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women
EDGAR WALLACE Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome advers...
LOU HOLTZ A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
DEYTH BANGER Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gai...
ARTHUR FORMAN A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
STEPHEN LEACOCK A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
STEPHEN LEACOCK Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
ERROL FLYNN A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
MARCUS AURELIUS No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The man who has done his best has done everything.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors an...
AARON SANCHEZ A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS S. SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS SZASZ People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something t...
THOMAS SZASZ A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
DEAN KOONTZ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Cheap is the love that has a price.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not s...
THOMAS SZASZ Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who...
JOSEPH HELLER No one who has done this class consistently has not shown improvement.
JUDY NATION A just man is not one who does no ill, but he, who with the power, has not the will
PHILEMON A successful person is often one who has failed more than most.
KEN POIROT Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
H. W. LONGFELLOW Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.
UNKNOWN The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left al...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS Just if one laughs does not mean he has easy life. Just one has smile on his face does not mean that...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and
any man who is over 30, and is no...
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty.
FARAH AHMEDI A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
MARCUS AURELIUS Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
LAO TZU Our intent is not vindictiveness. Something has to be done.
GARY HOPPER For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
GEORGE SANTAYANA An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger th...
OAKLEY HALL This is her whole thing, ... cancer is something she has. It is not who she is.
ANDREA HALL The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen wha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something ev...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That was something we all felt was important. Jared was someone who not only knows about a strategic...
KAREN STRID We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible th...
ARUNDHATI ROY Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kic...
BRUCE LEE One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes ...
EDWARD B. BUTLER Vaughan is a very good player who has done a great job as Test captain but he has always got injury ...
DEAN JONES Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It is impossible to find a man who has everything, but it is possible to find one who enjoys the thi...
VIKRANT PARSAI A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
ANTONIN SCALIA The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but...
OSWALD CHAMBERS One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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LISA WRIGHT A successful man is one who has mastery over money and women.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Caroline is one of those players who has such a feel for the game. You tell her something one time a...
DAVE FARRELL It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
SENECA He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN A man admits when has done something wrong. A gentleman apologizes for what he did wrong. A wise man...
MICHAEL CHAD BUTCHER Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost h...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ...
D. H. LAWRENCE One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
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MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS