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GERMANY KENT It's worth noting that the weekly stakes of the show will be out in the real world, involving everyd... BRANNON BRAGA The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers. ELIZABETH GEORGE Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN [Wise] knew they were going to be an emotional team coming in here, so she made sure we were focused... MARCIE HAMPTON Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out... MICHAEL FOSSEL If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be. HANNAH TOINTON Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA We hit shots and they didn't and a lot of times it comes down to that. We were just about to do what... DOUG BOYD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI 7 Rules to a Happy Life: 1. Be humble 2. Don’t worry 3. Don't settle for les... GERMANY KENT Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE Going into the season, no one really knew much about us. We were kind of the wild card. But we showe... BETHANY ROGERS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON We've discussed some team goals, but mainly we just want to do well while having fun. We didn't thin... CAILEY JO MCMANUS It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN We really sold this team on unity. Our motto this year is, 'One way, one team.' We told them we were... RICK RIOS But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five ... WILL ARNETT Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER We were hoping that the audience was going to be happy about it and not like, 'What they are doing?'... COURTENEY COX Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON I hope the Legislature is right about this and I'm wrong, because I do want prices to come down, ...... 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PERELMAN In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an... S. I. HAYAKAWA I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. S. I. HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or... S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us... S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an... S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un... S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon... S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina... S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma.... S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends. S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer... S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t... S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi... S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a... S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN