Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
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STEPHEN FRY All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend
WILLIAM PENN I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Well, India is a country of nonsense
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GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
FAYE MARSAY Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the g...
GEORGE ELIOT It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a be...
GREGORY WALLACE CAMPBELL We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing.
SCOTT MORTENSEN It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
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JEFFREY FRY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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DENISE BOTTCHER With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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KERRY KING ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as ...
LEMONY SNICKET Love is a friendship set to music.
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TED OLSON Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not troub...
SUSANNA CLARKE Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
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LESLIE W.P. GARLAND See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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JACK HANDY The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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SMOKEY ROBINSON Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
GEORGE MACDONALD Who you really are is Nonphysical Energy focused is a physical body, knowing full well that all is w...
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ROBERT FRIPP Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Set yourself free from that illusion that there is nothing God has not done for you.
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ELISE R MAUDE IS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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KATE SMITH It is nonsense to say that these areas do not contribute to the economy.
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CEELO GREEN Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL For me (being onstage) is me being everything I always wanted to be. It erases everything I don't li...
GERARD WAY Well, we obviously will be looking at someone who is quite capable of filling the slot that is being...
BRIAN BREESE I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
OSCAR WILDE Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
AUDREY HEPBURN Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Our CERT is capable of being self-sufficient for 72 hours.
DON HENRY to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter?
WILLIAM SHAKESPERE Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
RYAN HOLIDAY There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as wom...
LUCRETIA MOTT My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.
PAUL GREENGARD I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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HELEN HAYES It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
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DEB GAINES The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI Remember who you are. YOU ARE SOURCE! Therefore, there is NOTHING you are not capable of doing, atta...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good
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JOAQUIN PHOENIX Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
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JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
JOSEPH ADDISON