Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley
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ROBIN JAMES What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I h...
GINA RODRIGUEZ The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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PROVERB It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
FRENCH PROVERB Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and...
JERRY SPINELLI No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he put...
JESUS CHRIST When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It's not about believing in yourself; it's about being yourself--take action!
SHANNON L. ALDER If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I partic...
GINA GREENLEE It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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LECH WALESA Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, t...
JERRY SPINELLI Be yourself....and make the world adjust!
GERMANY KENT I will look for someone who will truly let me be me.
GAYLE NAKAMA You will remain where you are...,until you change your mindset.
A.STEVE-IFEOLUWA She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
E. LOCKHART You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your ac...
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CRISTIN HARBER Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
ARTHUR FREED So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend.
Thy love ne’er alter till thy sweet life end...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...
JERRY SPINELLI Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your ow...
L.M. MONTGOMERY As long as you have good intentions, you respect yourself, and wish the good to others as much as yo...
REEM AL OLABY If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always kn...
JEN WANG Don't ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.
SHANNON L. ALDER If you can be anything, be good. Let people know you for your goodness
SOTONYE ANGA O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be your own kind dont go around and chase others and do what they do.
NADIRA AHMED Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll...
EMMA CRAPE A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactl...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
CANDACE BUSHNELL Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
SAPPHO What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS It feels good to be strong.
KATHARINE MCPHEE Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.'
'I...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...
JERRY SPINELLI You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD To be inspired by an idea is like having the rush of balance while calming your self with a session ...
GARY F EVANS... Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
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HENRY SELICK It's sweet kismet, ... Dakota is a very gifted actor who will bring great skill and emotional depth ...
HENRY SELICK Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Un...
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DANIEL MELGAçO If a doctor lives, gives and swears by chance, who is the swine of a creature, the insects, the peop...
APURVA GAGLANI Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
BRAD HENRY Simple pleasures surround you, let them be seen.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be some...
UFUOMA APOKI My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
BIBLE Don't you see, don't you see, that the charade is over? And all the "Best Deceptions" and "Clever Co...
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ABBEY CLANCY Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discourage...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
HANNAH HART Anything is possible if yo've got enough nerve,
J.K. ROWLING Be humble!! Be wise!! Be wild!! Be love!! Be cute!! Be sexy!! Be sweet!! Be bold!!
ABHISHEK KUMAR It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
FANNIE HURST It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
FANNIE HURST It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to
FANNIE HURST Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
MADAME DE STAEL Be wise, everybody is clever.
LALIT BHOJWANI The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity...
ERICA GOROS I'm dead serious, ... Some of these (children) don't learn. You have got to teach them a lesson, and...
OSCAR GOODMAN Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelica...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home...
JERRY SPINELLI sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
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DALE CLINE The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be impose...
SUN TZU The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own
esteem.
- Charles Hadden Spurge...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.
Kingsley...I can't do this...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and t...
GRENVILLE KLEISER I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and ki...
KATE BOSWORTH Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL
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KINGSLEY AMIS As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
BEN KINGSLEY I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that ever...
BEN KINGSLEY I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same ...
BEN KINGSLEY I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it...
BEN KINGSLEY I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't unde...
BEN KINGSLEY I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox...
BEN KINGSLEY There's so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEY There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
BEN KINGSLEY In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn wel...
BEN KINGSLEY I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You ...
KINGSLEY AMIS Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...
KINGSLEY AMIS No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present�...
KAZA KINGSLEY Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY I think we wanted to say the same thing that all of these other people are saying that this boat was...
LINDA KINGSLEY When we took control of the terminal ... there were things that were left behind in various formats,...
LINDA KINGSLEY It was difficult the way the news was conveyed, and it was difficult to see how many department head...
LINDA KINGSLEY There were a lot of corporate entities. There were a lot of business dealings. There were records th...
LINDA KINGSLEY It was the hardest ticket in town, ... Celebrities were crying: 'Where's my 'box?' 'Where's my 'box?...
PAT KINGSLEY For the time being, we are just not opening fan mail. Just to be careful, we are putting it off for ...
PAT KINGSLEY