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Related Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ISABEL RAMOS There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will exp... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. SAM SHEPPARD No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally ... LEO BUSCAGLIA No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Pain has creative power, Let the magic unfold... HENNA SOHAIL Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who ne... DAN MARINO Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE We sent a telegram immediately to announce our discovery, and an article crediting me for the discov... DR. NOAH BROSCH My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those wh... DAN MARINO In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of remo... ROLLO MAY By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had t... HARUKI MURAKAMI I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pai... EUGENE IONESCO No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ... EUGENE IONESCO I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o... COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o... COL HARLAND SANDERS I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o... COL. HARLAND SANDERS I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by enc... KILROY J. OLDSTER During our presentation today and (Wednesday) we will show from our history and our heritage, from a... GREGORY CRAIG And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away ... VINCE GILL Until midnight it was snowing heavily and we were out in turns removing snow from our temporary shed... IMTIAZ HUSSAIN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER The more we connect with our Spiritual self, the uglier sin looks. From the book: Removing Your Sham... EDDIE CAPPARUCCI Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion... KILROY J. OLDSTER My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary wal... IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY he way up is through service,Sacrificial service - it is better to serve than to be served IKECHUKWU JOSEPH It would get us better in line for later this decade. We'll be eligible for some additional school f... DWAYNE PIELECH We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk... ANDRé BERTHIAUME We had a really good start in all of our schools. It went exceptionally well. It was almost like our... BILL JAMES There are a lot of children in our schools who would really benefit from getting the sense that adul... LUCY MATHIAK There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. STEPHEN HAWKING No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ... MARTHA BECK He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&... RORY MCCANN My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ... ERNEST ISTOOK I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and t... LINSEY MILLER The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve... ANDREW SOLOMON It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the t... HAMLIN GARLAND [My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes] has given me blessed release from care and worry and the... HAMLIN GARLAND The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but thro... ANNA GARLIN SPENCER A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe ... MARKUS ZUSAK The AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest challenges to our society today. It is a fight that we cann... ANTHONY S. FAUCI No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there wa... COLONEL SANDERS To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... One of our senior leaders was not playing and that didn't help. It was a rough night from the start.... JAMES COCHRAN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama th... MATT LEBLANC At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going ... DEXTER PALMER Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what wo... ISAAC ASIMOV She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of m... GRAHAM GREENE My house isn't underwater. It's gone. I'm not going back. We have had no help from them for our citi... BEN MORRIS It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have somethi... ABIGAIL TARTTELIN We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin... V. S. NAIPAUL Because society tends to focus more on the negative aspects of our black youth, like stealing, fight... AJA WATKINS Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than ... JOSEPH BUTLER If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in... ALAN BRADLEY Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom JULIAN PENCILLIAH Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. CARTER BURWELL If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial f... THEODORE C. SORENSEN But with my mom it was different because I couldn't be my professional self. I had to be me - a daug... DIANE CROSSAN You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... MICHAEL FASSBENDER A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being... KILROY J. OLDSTER This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrev... DONALD JOHANSON Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here. Amy: Just stop it! Rory: Just think it throu... STEVEN MOFFAT Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s ar... KILROY J. OLDSTER Our main goal, No. 1, is to provide them with an opportunity to participate in a sport. Through that... KIRSTIN PEAHL Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial ... JOE SCHREIBER The best self-help advice I ever received, was to help someone else. DIETMAR PAHL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o... JOSEPH CONRAD The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's system... SEAMUS HEANEY It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading f... ROD PARSLEY Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not... MARLA GIBBS People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ev... PETER FONDA And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselve... ALPHONSUS LIGUORI My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch o... TIFFANY L. JACKSON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL I was pleased with our hitting today. I felt like that, with that amount of hits from us, and if our... TAMMY OLSON Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten... ERMA BOMBECK Fixing personality defects is like removing weeds. It is not enough to get rid of what you see; you ... JIM GENOVESE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The very first step in the path of progress out from the death-trap created by organized religions, ... ABHIJIT NASKAR There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it. J.P. DELANEY No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, ... SUNDAY ADELAJA
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