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Related Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our ev... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO We played together and never gave up, never pointed fingers. Our attitude was a good one. We are all... DAN STARKEY Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred y... ROSS CALIGIURI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha... ANAïS NIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... If we fail to accept change in our life, we will never become who our potential says we can be! TRAVIS J HEDRICK The things we can do to change other people’s lives will change our lives and it will change our c... ANIL GUPTA We are not just going to sit back and let America to go down this ramp of immorality alone, ... We c... HARRY JACKSON [Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our li... JEAN VANIER Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ANTHONY ROBBINS We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. TONY ROBBINS The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the det... RICK RIORDAN We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living... PAUL KALANITHI It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Our roots are in the people and we can never forget the people at the grassroots. LIU YUNSHAN I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual.... ELLEN DEGENERES The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the det... RICK RIORDAN Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities... BILL BRADLEY So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN even if we can’t change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That’s how we rebel ... RICK RIORDAN In proper meditation, we learn to watch our thoughts. We can then consciously live in this moment th... HOWARD MANN We have the power as individuals to create a different perspective. We can physically rewire our bra... TINA HALLIS We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise eno... ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. HELEN KELLER Our life can be snuffed out in a minute. Yet, we tend to live as if this will never happen. LORRIN L. LEE We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these
decisions upon the aware... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h... ORHAN PAMUK Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be h... DR. CARL SAGAN In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our all... OPTIMUS PRIME When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everythin... MICHAEL HUFFINGTON My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we gr... LONI ANDERSON We all need reminders to be our own dreamer and step out of the stories we create. I never turn away... ESTEE TASCHEREAU Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment. AUDREY NIFFENEGGER We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax... RICK PERRY There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot... ELEANOR BROWN Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral ... MELANIE JOY We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can im... JENNIFER LE Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thin... PAULINE CREEDEN We're very encouraged by our second half, we challenged them at halftime and we weren't very happy a... BOB HAMLEY But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this gr... ABRAHAM LINCOLN When we let our Greed become our Need, we can never be happy indeed!-RVM RVM We have to learn the art of stopping - stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness,... THICH NHAT HANH Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I shou... SHōHEI ŌOKA Inner strength of our character can never be taken away from us. If we focus on our character, our r... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We're balanced and deep. We don't have great size, but I think we will be all right on the boards if... DAVE JOSEPH We have never died before, so lets live our lives together until our last moments. Lets enjoy oursel... ANONYMOUS The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we o... ALARIC HUTCHINSON Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. LARA ST. JOHN The two permanent thing in this world are change and responsibility as a parent.In 1 second, we coul... RHEA CASTOR MANGA I do not feel we can go on living in a dream world forever and a day believing that war will never t... PAULINE HANSON It is a big moment. I will never forget this. CUI JIAN Live in the moment. When you are focused on the moment, you can choose your actions consciously and ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We are going to keep working hard, and go down and perform the best that we can perform. We got ther... KRISTI LAFLEUR We picked up pace and our shots were there (in the second half). The second half was our best team e... TROY SMITH Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align oursel... SANCHITA PANDEY This team can score points. That's never been our problem. We've got to get stops when we need them.... LUKE RIDNOUR We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-... STARHAWK Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL There are very few of us who remember the day, the moment, when our childhood ends. For most of us, ... JENNIFER WIXSON This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each d... STEVEN PRESSFIELD In my opinion, this is the hardest regional in Class B. There is a lot of talent in this regional, b... JENNA RUDDELL We have a lot invested in this town. Our homes, our lives, our churches are here. We're going to be ... HOWARD CUMMINS We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e... TERESA OF AVILA We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can ... BRIAN ALEXANDER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, w... AIDAN CHAMBERS We are very depressed. This is very intrusive into our lives. If we can't do anything, I don't know ... GENE PETERSEN This regime will never agree to form a government of national unity to govern a transition. All we c... MAMADOU BA Our kids played with 150 percent of their heart. They never gave up and their want to win was there.... HUGH ROBERTS We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our pr... MILAN KUNDERA I just hope we keep in our minds that an effort like this can never be too expensive. ELVIS COSTELLO When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the ... JACK KORNFIELD This is a unilateral vote without sufficient debate and discussions, and we can never approve of thi... YUKIO HATOYAMA The present is our own. The right-this-second, the here-and-now, this moment before the next, is our... RENEE CARLINO Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Strength of Your character can never be taken away. If we focus on our character, our reputation wil... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other ... DIET EMAN The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive
at a reasonable conclusion, we st... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril. ANDREW MOTION If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past? JOHN STEINBECK This team never quits. We were down 5-0 to Hernando Christian and we came back to beat them for the ... BRYAN TAYLOR This is just a red flag that says we in Newfane notice. All I can do at this moment is do something ... DAN DEWALT America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past... BARACK OBAMA We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will com... NORMAN MAILER It is clearly our preference that WJ recognize the merits of this so we can sit down and chat about ... WILLIAM CARPENTER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We showed good resilience. We never gave up. This was in our building, before our fans. There was so... DUNCAN KEITH How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or wheth... PLATO
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STEVEN ADLER My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ... STEVEN TYLER You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ... STEVEN SEAGAL We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning a... STEVEN PINKER The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th... STEVEN SPIELBERG If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes fro... STEVEN JOHNSON I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. STEVEN WRIGHT I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an... STEVEN WRIGHT I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' STEVEN WRIGHT I intend to live forever. So far, so good. STEVEN WRIGHT I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There... STEVEN SPIELBERG Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. STEVEN SPIELBERG Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. STEVEN ADLER It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t... STEVEN ADLER I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. STEVEN ADLER You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year... STEVEN ADLER The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo... STEVEN ADLER