If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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DEYTH BANGER One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
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RON DARIAN He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
AGATHA CHRISTIE As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Doing good does us good.
ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI Doing good induces others to reciprocate.
ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI It is a lie.
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JACKIE CHAN One of the jokes is there's nothing quite as scary as a nasty beaver. Maybe it'll intimidate the oth...
JEFF PAIN Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is...
DEYTH BANGER I make theater for myself, and if someone else can derive some value from it, fine.
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LESLIE W.P. GARLAND It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate...
J.R. MORALES Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject...
C.J. SANSOM About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Most would have nothing else if it wasn't for these clinics,
ELEANOR COOPER If nothing else, it gives the officers a pat on the back for all they do.
HENRY MORGAN If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
C.S. LEWIS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
JOHNNY THUNDERS Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
JAMES SUROWIECKI The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good s...
ZADIE SMITH If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.
LOUIS TOMLINSON He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but take...
EIJI YOSHIKAWA [T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject'...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just d...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
ANDY ROONEY Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wo...
C. S. LEWIS If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world ...
WILLIAM GLASSER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL [Wise and Bates were together at Chelsea for 11 years.] Leeds are doing fine at the moment, ... Obvi...
DENNIS WISE I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
MARKUS ZUSAK They have a very good team. We've had a fine year and taking second is nothing to be ashamed of, and...
GEORGE KOLOMBATOVICH unless time is good for something it is good for nothing.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It would be hard for me to make a good case on the subject.
BUDDY EILAND A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good...
WILLIAM EMPSON It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What separates me from my present is like a fine mist, an intangible veil, an invisible wall. They d...
PASCAL MERCIER For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
GEORGE HERBERT If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend ...
J. RANDOLPH CRESENZO You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
MICHAEL KORDA The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don’t go for good or better; the best is yours; go for it.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for so...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Please... Please
...
Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But...
ADAM DRAPER Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for so...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Thorpe said they were bad swims but, for anyone else, that's a world-class performance. You don't sw...
DEAN PRICE There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are...
MARTIN FREEMAN Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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JODI PICOULT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN We knew they were athletic and William Thomas (33 points) is very good, so this is a good game for o...
BOB KRIZANCIC There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH We will give no more than what was offered to the jury ? that is, that he was guilty of accessory af...
J. TONY SERRA If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
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SARAH DESSEN [Fun and games for sure, but with an underlying middle finger toward growing intolerance in mainstre...
MARGARET CHO Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Reflection makes men cowards.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT He who would see old Hoghton right
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those
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thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
WILLIAM HAZLITT