People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune
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People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
WILLIAM MCFEE Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
WILLIAM MCFEE Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
DAVID FASOLD Maybe there are no right moments, right guys, right answers...maybe you just have to say whats in yo...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they a...
COLETTE BOWE No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they ...
COLETTE BOWE No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it...
CALVIN COOLIDGE No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
ANN BRASHARES Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar...
AMIR RIVEROLL People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been &a...
SUZANNE COLLINS There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
PROVERB Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
SARAH DESSEN There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be fr...
JONATHAN TURLEY The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philo...
SOCRATES People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory ...
ECKHART TOLLE There was no doubt that she had the ability to score, but there is no guarantee as to how someone wi...
LAURA BRAND Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that pro...
JOSH MCDOWELL people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without softwa...
JOHN C. MATHER As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to de...
PAUL SIMON Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor t...
SOCRATES Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be
overjoyed in good fortune nor t...
SOCRATES There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it w...
TONY CAMPOLO Never forget to constantly watch over your business basket,even if it is a 100year old venture,for b...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY its not whats in the outside that Matters its whats in the inside that Counts.
NADIRA AHMED I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other peop...
JONATHAN DEE dont let your abuser win ,,,, brake the silence they have no right to get away with it xx
GRACE Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and m...
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put t...
PAUL SIMON They all seem to be pretty well satisfied. That was the encouraging thing. We had no idea. They seem...
BRENT HAYES If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can...
TUCKER MAX The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pore...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND People are starting to realize that Sears is moving in the right direction and is a good investment.
SCOTT ROTHBORT War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES People seem to be OK with what we're doing.
DEAN HACHAMOVITCH There is no search and rescue campaign that is efficient against a strategy that pushes people into ...
CLAUDIA SMITH Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It's just to guarantee that we're not left blind against an enemy missile launch.
LOREN THOMPSON It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children again...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY They have great, young pitching, ... There is no guarantee that if you spend $200 million that you a...
JOE GIRARDI Sometimes the price of doing the right thing is higher than we realize when we do it.
RACHEL AARON We want to be anywhere the right people are, however, there is no point duplicating what others are ...
JAMES ROSS That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
DANIEL CLOWES I’m going to look like an idiot to everyone I ever knew -
or everyone I ever knew is going to real...
ROSS ELDER Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Look at these numbers, ... People seem to like what we're doing.
BRIAN SCHWEITZER People who joined the protest against censorship, believed that no one had the right to say what the...
INGRAM BONDIN Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
STIEG LARSSON Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
AESCHYLUS Some find helping an awkward option; thinking that in so doing is just making oneself a hostage of o...
JECON B. NADELA You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
KENNETH EADE Because of the nature of a test, you're doing everything for the first time. And you realize that th...
BILL CLANCEY Age is no guarantee of maturity.
LAWANA BLACKWELL Size is no guarantee of power.
J.K. ROWLING As we honor and thank the brave men and women of our military who fight today to guarantee our freed...
BOB BEAUPREZ No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it
solemnly.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to peo...
VANCE HAVNER The rarest thing you'll ever see is exactly what I'm doing right now.
KAYLA RAE However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have in...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
EMMA GOLDMAN Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
WILLIAM MCFEE The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
WILLIAM MCFEE If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
WILLIAM MCFEE Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the ap...
WILLIAM MCFEE Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
WILLIAM MCFEE It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark
WILLIAM MCFEE A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting ...
WILLIAM MCFEE There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
WILLIAM MCFEE Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
WILLIAM MCFEE There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for li...
WILLIAM MCFEE Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER A load of cinematic effects that otherwise seem easy or cheap to me suddenly become difficult again....
LARS VON TRIER At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU Anointing doesn't guarantee protection against fornication, adultery or lust
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY If we can get a good win against Minnesota, that will finally help people realize that Penn State is...
CALVIN LOWRY Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.
JOE ABERCROMBIE How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?
ANTHONY DOERR People don't realize how close to home this is. Amanda was right up there in Seffner.
CYNTHIA BARTLETT Its funny but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take...
NICHOLAS SPARKS No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the...
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN Quit telling me that "you haven't done anything wrong." Most people waste their lives trying to do n...
JEFF DIXON-TERROR IN THE KINGDOM Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.
STEVEN MAGEE Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
WILLIAM BERNBACH It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be mi...
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WILLIAM MCFEE Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
WILLIAM MCFEE People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
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WILLIAM MCFEE There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
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WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
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WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
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WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
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WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
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WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
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WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
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WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
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