First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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KELLY JONES It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
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SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
RICHARD STEELE The grace for each day is sufficient to accomplish a daily task.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT “Life is a learning curve, the direction of the curve
depends upon us, may we strive to learn dail...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT To sober up seems to many like making life “so serious,” as if seriousness precluded joy, warmth...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A netizen speaks normally about own life’s first priority or preference through the profile pictur...
ANUJ SOMANY Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible.
PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.
MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.
PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
JOHN GRISHAM I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi...
FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL The whole journey of life has been broken down into bits: days! Day by day we live life! Day by day ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.
CARROLL BRYANT I think I know most of Brainerd. I know about half of them by name.
ALAN PELZER Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
SHAWN ACHOR Every day were reborn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"
There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.
His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end o...
CHRISTOPHER BYFORD We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c...
JAMES MADISON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES They turned this into a criminal case, and now they don't know how to resolve it. I'm afraid we need...
ANCLE HSU And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the sing...
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GABRIELLE UNION The greatest loss is the loss of life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of t...
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CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ...
EMM COLE painful and hard-won sobriety.
CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
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FRANKLIN GILLETTE He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measur...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
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DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
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DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
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DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
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DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
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DAVID CASSIDY There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
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DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
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DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
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DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
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DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
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DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
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DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
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DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
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DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
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DAVID CASSIDY It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
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DAVID HAREWOOD The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that...
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DAVID HANSON If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
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DAVID SZE What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
DAVID MAMET I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ...
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DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr...
DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN