I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.
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Related Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exp... NIKKI ROWE Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. JOSH BILLINGS Cookies are happy, because that is their job. Making those you know, and don't know happy. They tell... BRENT M. JONES If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among them... BILL CLINTON Ive often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and g... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS I believe that humans should have the right to choose who to spend their lives with, and subsequentl... ANONYMOUS I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their... ABIGAIL BRESLIN Last year, we had a concern about people in nursing homes who were at high risk and decided to alloc... GARY CRUM All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player. MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu... ARTEMUS WARD You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are... AMIRI BARAKA (About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Sure... NICK HORNBY We want the business people to know there are a lot of people like us, who are very worried about th... GREG SERBON Very few people plan for a stay in a nursing home. And I think that is because they think it will ha... JEAN MORRIS People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty... LEILA SALES These were guys who had been in situations where their lives had been in peril, so this was a game t... BOB EASON We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Men are taught how to be what a woman wants and women are taught how to be what a man wants, therefo... C. JOYBELL C. The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes... MEG CABOT How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dro... DENIS LEARY I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized place... JERRY PINTO A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was n... UMERA AHMAD Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy... JEFFREY BENJAMIN People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives. DAVID FILO You can't help but to think about it, that you're going to have a lot of people that probably know y... ERIC WILLIAMS That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives." TERRY PRATCHETT I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni... DAVID ALMOND Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI All the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have be... STEPHEN CHBOSKY At least one chamber of Congress has finally made a statement that it is not acceptable to hurt or k... MARA KEISLING It's kind of like apples and oranges, not really an even playing field. ... I know there are some ot... BILL THOM It's kind of like apples and oranges, not really an even playing field. ... I know there are some ot... BILL THOM You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think people are thinking, if you didn't know, you should have known. GARY MILLER History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee... WENDELL BERRY I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad -- and other people, too. At the same time, I think t... MICHELLE PFEIFFER I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a... AUNG SAN SUU KYI We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ... DORIS LESSING Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandel... PETER GUBER When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check whe... TASHA SMITH Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write... GAIL COLLINS I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the... GERARD BUTLER Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they ... ANDY ROONEY You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s... DORIS LESSING It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard o... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we ar... JEANNETTE WALLS People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ... WENDELL BERRY Some people spend their lives trying as best they can, at least in public, to appear to be living a ... BOBBY W. MILLER The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who... 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ED BRONSDON The program definitely seems a lot stronger this year. Some people are stressed about it because of ... ANNA BROWN I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular peop... LUCAS NEFF ...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and ... NINA LACOUR You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal peopl... SIDNEY KNIGHT Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with thei... NADIA COMANECI There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are ... ROBERT LYND Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and sha... SOLOMON ORTIZ I am not allowed to tell people they should not get this vaccine. But we have been telling them abou... DR. MICHELLE MCDONALD We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha... DORIS LESSING Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are force... MARGARET ATWOOD Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives ther... CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We also tell about hundreds of people who are not so well known, but have taken significant steps to... CAROL LLOYD We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our en... ERIN HUNTER I know some people who were not diagnosed until their forties. LEE WOODLAND People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest ... CAREY MULLIGAN I think Shannon should look at my granny and tell her that he's sorry, because he kept calling and a... LISA PARKER One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a cert... ERIC SHONKWILER It's kind of like apples and oranges, not really an even playing field. ... I know there are some ot... BILL THOM There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. YOGI BERRA I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ... NELSON MANDELA And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have be... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes... CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. CORMAC MCCARTHY It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY