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Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.


Reuven Rivlin

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Life is like a bed of roses, so much is beautiful, but be mindful of the thorns.
JOHN SMITH To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into peta...
C. JOYBELL C. To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Some people grumble because roses have thorns. Be thankful instead that thorns have roses.
UNKNOWN Life is really a bed of roses, others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns of...
UNKNOWN Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
KAMAND KOJOURI Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
UNKNOWN Some people complain because the roses have thorns. Others give thanks because the thorns have roses...
UNKNOWN The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Life is no bed of roses nor a bed of thorns. Life is a mix of a little bit of both...
PHILIP T. M. To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
TOM WILSON You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
ZIGGY You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses
ZIGGY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.
ZIGGY Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.
ANGELICA HOPES Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are incli...
GENE SAKS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses
GERMAN PROVERB If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL 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 All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
UNKNOWN I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav...
YO-YO MA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
PILPAY There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
BIDPAI (PILPAY) Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
BIDPAI (PILPAY) Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN A revolution is not a bed of roses.
FIDEL CASTRO Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS 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) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY 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) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

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