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All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.


Blaise Pascal

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IMMACULéE ILIBAGIZA A handicap is not about how we walk, talk, act, dress or do things. It's about things that keep us f...
JEFF STEINBERG Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
DONALD MILLER What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?
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KENDRICK MACDOWELL We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can f...
ELAYNE BOOSLER We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giv...
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DEE SHIHADY The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
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DEBASISH MRIDHA Yes. Well, as I said, love can haunt us, and make us do strange things.
ALENA GRAEDON It made for some long goddamn nights I can tell you that. They were out to kill us.
FRANK PEPE People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
ALBERT ELLIS Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can hap...
RICHARD BACH we do not have the things you have ... Can you help us?
JONATHAN KOZOL We see bad things happening and we do not change them. I have made mistakes in many ways, some were ...
VICTOR WERNET Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them...
RENE DENFELD It's prepared us. It's made us mature as a team and be ready for the sort of things that can happen ...
BRYCE DAVISON Have faith and confidence in your skills. Negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt can destroy us before o...
SUZY KASSEM Do we kill time, or does time ultimately kill us?
ANTHONY LICCIONE Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
DONNA TARTT Why do they want to kill us if we haven't done anything?
LUIS MANDOKI If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we...
FERNAND POINT Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
VANESSA PARADIS I feel a women's role has got to be a gentle role and perhaps if we can do it correctly, the men wou...
BETTY WILLIAMS Every last person we kill is for family. If we do not kill them, they kill us. It’s the way of the...
J.J. MCAVOY Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different ...
STEVE VOAKE Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...
LOUIS MACNEICE Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have cea...
MAUREEN BRADY All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can...
HILL HARPER This gives us a lot more confidence in knowing we can do things.
LANCE WILSON If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
L.M. MONTGOMERY I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, end...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense ...
JANE HOWARD He stood up and told us if we didn't take the boot off he was going to kill us.
JASON MATHEWS Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ...
C. JOYBELL C. There are no problems, only teachers (people, places, and things) that challenge us to be all we can...
JIM GENOVESE He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")
ERIK PEVERNAGIE That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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KENDRICK MACDOWELL More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from tellin...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It took heart. As you can see we had things go against us all year. We didn't want our year to end t...
DEREK TAPSCOTT Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can...
BARBARA SHER Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.
ILONA ANDREWS Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
ERROL MORRIS Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love......
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...W...
BARBARA SHER The things we can do to prepare for any hazard will better prepare us for terrorism.
CRAIG MARKS We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
GOLDA MEIR We're not profitable by our own. If we can make money outside of the four walls of the Forum, that w...
BILL WICKETT Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depen...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In general, we think that nature evolved this function to help us survive DNA damage that would othe...
GRAHAM WALKER I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of ever...
YOSSI SARID All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our to...
NEIL GAIMAN The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
MARIAN KEYES He was pretty frantic, screaming he's going to kill us. I would guess he told us he was going to kil...
JOSHUA BORKLUND It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warmi...
JIM SULLIVAN We'll be well. We can do it. I see signs of hope all around us. Lights are coming on, and things are...
KATHLEEN BLANCO We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we tried to go into town they would kill us along the way.
HADJI MISIR AIDI We kill time; time buries us
JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serv...
GUY FINLEY Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls...
RANDY PAUSCH If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA This year could be big for us if we can get over that hump and really get things going. I know for a...
MARCUS TRUFANT You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL I was afraid she was here to kill us all.
CONNIE REED We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
ERIC HOFFER The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
BRANDON MULL If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER They told us, if things look close, chances are we can get the assessment lowered below 50 percent, ...
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JJ SIMMONS I think it left an impression, because in (my) four years, he had never done something like that. It...
ADAM BURISH What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY She said something, that someone was going to come in and kill us all.
DONA BAILEY Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the cen...
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BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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