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Lionel Messi

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Lionel Messi is awesome.
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DEYTH BANGER
Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
PELE
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY
Obviously, this is exciting. It's special. No, make that real special, given the history of this org...
ROGER MCDOWELL
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA
When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS...
To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS...
Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of ...
VIRAT KOHLI
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO
No good without bad. No bad without good. No nothing without something. We think we are something, t...
EPHDAN
I think the legacy is what it is. We've won 14 straight [division titles]. We know how special that ...
CHIPPER JONES
There is fear in being lost, but if the place being lost is beautiful, then there is fear in being f...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond...
TED KOPPEL
The girls are very selfless and there is no animosity among them. Their focus is on what's best for ...
MARK LOCKOWITZ
I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world supe...
JOHAN CRUYFF
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is...
DOLLY WELLS
Life may not be party you hoped for,But that doesnt mean u should stop dancing!Remember you are the ...
ANMOL P. JAORA
Nothing existed named; but it's after it existed that it is named.
EPHDAN
I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
PAUL ERDőS
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
I do feel it's at the peak of something special. Maybe not the peak, but it's something special. Whe...
WILL POOLE
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
LORETTA YOUNG
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No ...
HALLE BERRY
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. I...
ANNE BISHOP
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's ...
JOHN GLOVER
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much ...
BIBLE
Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in...
HALLE BERRY
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s...
DELANO JOHNSON
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA
Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
They rearranged boxes, they changed titles, but the fact is, nothing has changed.
LANCE CORCORAN
Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M.
The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among...
TUCKER CARLSON
There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete - we were invited into beautiful home...
ZOE FOSTER BLAKE
Hacking is a talent. You won't learn it at school. It's like being Messi or C.Ronaldo. If you were b...
AMINE ESSIRAJ
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream,...
MARK TWAIN
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six...
MARK E. HYMAN
You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special ab...
NEIL GAIMAN
There's just no better feeling. Being the senior captain on a team that's won eight straight [ACC] t...
FRAN CRIPPEN
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are time...
CARLA BLEY
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them ha...
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We are looking at the hours that the exchange opens, among other things we are looking at, and we ha...
JOHN THAIN
If everything is the same, nothing is special.
LADY STARLIGHT
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision
WILLIAM JAMES
Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if on...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your da...
STEVE MARABOLI
Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
There is no way the department is responsible for the deaths of these children. This department is a...
ANDREW SPANO
There is no way the department is responsible for the deaths of these children. This department is a...
ANDREW J. SPANO
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is...
MARTIN GARDNER
If there was no discrimination in the application of the law, we would have no problem with it. But ...
DEBORAH DOWDELL
Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER
Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but alw...
CRIMETHINC.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
CHARLES DARWIN
L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it'...
DAVE GAHAN
Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work a...
A. DALCOURT
I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is t...
MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN
The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
SARAH PALIN
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
You just gotta have the desire to do something to make it possible. Human beings have that capacity....
CAMILA CUEVAS
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saint...
BIBLE
23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON
There are always spots to be won, regardless of position. I think you can look at our lineup and see...
MIKE SULLIVAN
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MICHAEL MORITZ
This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures ...
ASHTAVAKRA GITA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
We observed the first decisions and trials of the special court that they have created and we're ver...
JUAN MENDEZ
It's a Site of Special Scientific Interest up there. Something to do with the butterflies and the bi...
HENRY BLAKE
He has a beautiful grin, totally at peace and still up to something mischievous. It's a special phot...
ANITA THOMPSON
No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.
MIKE CAREY
There is always confusion among the access channels. But it does tell you that all the access channe...
LOUISE THOMPSON
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
It's an honor to be a part of arguably the best and biggest high school football event ever put toge...
BARRY NORTON
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE
The animosity out there is something special.
DUSTIN BOYD
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The only result of being proud is making yourself nothing among your peers.
RAYMOND OBENG
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition...
ROBIN S. SHARMA
A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure ...
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because the...
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I want to avoid comparisons because for me there has never been anyone quite like him.
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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
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Business is very good right now.
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All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
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an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.
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I've got a lot of ham in me.
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I've always been crazy about playing.
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Omnipotence is a status that is fragile at best. By its very own standard meaning of unlimited power...
LIONEL SUGGS
He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o...
LIONEL SUGGS
Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS
Beware of what "everybody says".
LIONEL SHRIVER
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teen...
LIONEL BLUE
I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ...
LIONEL SUGGS
Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m...
LIONEL SUGGS
Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER
His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
LIONEL BARRYMORE
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER
consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective...
LIONEL TRILLING
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
LIONEL TRILLING
I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders...
LIONEL SUGGS
Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS
Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE
The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE
To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS
When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS
People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS
I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE