If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
JOSH BILLINGS If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any s...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS ....let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty...
ROBERT HARRIS No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if...
KENNETH EADE HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --nobody knows what hash is.
AMBROSE BIERCE Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI There was no force in any world that could keep her contained.
SARAH J. MAAS There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
SUSIE SWITZER If I could be any flavor of ice cream, I would be spinach so no one would eat me.
JOSH HUFFORD If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
WILLA CATHER If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures...
F. W. HIRST There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is the possibility, if not likelihood, that we would not yet be finished with this, even with ...
ANTHONY FAUCI There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
WILLIAM SAROYAN If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
DR. GREGORY HOUSE If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for ...
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and mone...
TERRY PRATCHETT There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated
from right living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right
living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K
LEMUEL K. WASHBURN There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
MARK TWAIN Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
WILLIAM GLASSER …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
JOHN IRVING If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
YISROEL MEIR HA-COHEN There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...
THOMAS LIGOTTI If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI If we hadn't carried out this action ... there would be no debate.
JOSE BOVE If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be n...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no...
ABBIE HOFFMAN It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creature...
DONALD DAVIDSON Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want an...
TEMITOPE OWOSELA Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief i...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they d...
CHRISTOPHER MCGRATH Even if there was no war, I wouldn't be interested in the military.
ALEX WOODS I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM Not the least of my problems is that I can hardly even imagine what kind of an experience a genuine,...
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDAL If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
LEO TOLSTOY If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G.K. CHESTERTON If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
ISADORA DUNCAN He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat...
LEO TOLSTOY If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
PLUTARCH Gravity is something that people take for granted ,but you would not no that it was generated by the...
GARY F EVANS... The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.
CHRISTIAN END If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,
JOSEPH HANSEN I'm not missing any starts. No way. If I was going to miss a start, it would be (Sunday). Why am I s...
BARRY ZITO I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY There would be better kids in this world today if prayer was in school.
LEE MURRAY There was no violence, no aggression and we find imposing a banning order would be disproportionate ...
HOWARD MORGAN If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
GENE BROWN There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot h...
ANDREW DAVIDSON There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH I think the evidence is there. I think that there are about 80 to 100 adults (cougars in Michigan) a...
DENNIS FIJALKOWSKI If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS We are not even worried that we would be subject to future waves of job cuts, if there were any.
GRACE LEE If there was no discrimination in the application of the law, we would have no problem with it. But ...
DEBORAH DOWDELL There's no reason in the world to suggest there was any justification for this turning into a knife ...
JAY GRANBERRY Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no m...
HOWARD JACOBSON We have to disclose there could be boundary changes and even if it's not this year, it could be next...
SUE GILBERTSON If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would b...
DANA PLATO As far as I am concerned and my staff is concerned there is no certainty with this project whatsoeve...
BRUCE RINKER There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no safety this side of the grave.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distres...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a sin...
ANDY GIBB If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be...
ROBERT PENN WARREN No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful
MUNIA KHAN Even the dogs in the street know that there will be no decommission, no possibility of decommission ...
GEORGE MITCHELL If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book...
LEMONY SNICKET Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM This conversation was spontaneous. There certainly was no script. It was not even particularly coher...
DOUG CHRISTIE The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American peopl...
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JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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