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Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.


Cardinal De Richelieu

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CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that mome...
HIROMI UEHARA Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. Th...
JERRY KRAMER Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem...
LAURENCE BINYON Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or ...
POPE FRANCIS They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washingto...
JULIAN BOND Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
ZOSIA MAMET Tim not scoring, he doesn't care. He had six assists and led the team. ... He's unselfish enough to ...
GREGG POPOVICH Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide th...
MARK W. BOYER I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons...
PAT PAULSEN Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
ARCHIMEDES There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdo...
BIBLE We are searching for them, either to find them alive or their bodies.
ASSADULLAH KHALID I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a ro...
JUAN PABLO DI PACE The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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E.J. PATTEN There's not enough time for them to be the outside person and the inside person.
BILL ROBINSON Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us t...
CONFUCIUS I am most alive and most fulfilled sitting alone in a room, hoping that those words forming on paper...
NEIL SIMON I catch them, I buy them and people give them to me as gifts.
DON EHLEN I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give t...
MISSY ELLIOTT Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, s...
PHILIP YANCEY Religious fundamentalist haters and terrorists are not just saying that those who disagree with them...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you're going to dismiss a person for poor performance, part of the implied term of mutual trust a...
JOHN DWYER I find money when I clean the bleachers and I buy packs of gum and hand it out to the kids. Whenever...
BILL TYLER Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be writte...
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT I have been traveling all over the state for the past six months. I would like to elevate the consci...
JAY VAVRICEK I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Our written plan calls for five sites, ... I know where they are. The plan is flexible enough to mov...
WILLIAM NELSON Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you,...
BIBLE It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, / Be...
BIBLE It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...
MAX BARRY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.
MATT SMITH It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only,...
DAVY CROCKETT Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually...
ELIZABETH GILBERT are using our voices to condemn them.
OSAMA BIN LADEN Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
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BILL ARNOLD I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who ...
NATHAN FILER I ain't going to give them [anything] — I already threw most of it in the trash anyway.
BARRY COHEN In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for th...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA I just asked them to be your own person, be independent. I don't want people to walk in lock step. I...
BILL BUNTING Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
NOEL FIELDING But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be...
BIBLE Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye s...
BIBLE Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In safety, it's not going to happen by magic. You have to hold people accountable, for having meetin...
ALAN QUILLEY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
SYD BARRETT Give us one person to go to, one person in charge, and we'll go to them and meet the standards. Ther...
FRANK MATTHEWS We condemn the continued targeting of all innocent civilians, including journalists, and appeal to t...
ANN COOPER He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority dis...
ELMER T PETERSON Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
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CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
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GEORGE CARDINAL PELL You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
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JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
LEON JOSEPH CARDINAL SUENENS The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA) Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
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DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
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CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN