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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.
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DAVID H. MURDOCK All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produce...
DAVID H. KELLER It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
DAVID H. SOUTER Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation ...
DAVID H. SCOTT I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits ...
DAVID H. MURDOCK My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immuni...
DAVID H. MURDOCK It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer...
DAVID H. MURDOCK those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why othe...
DAVID H. MARTINEZ Personally, I like to juice up several different kinds of fruit and vegetables - which may include v...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse s...
DAVID H. MURDOCK By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity...
DAVID H. MURDOCK No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need com...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper di...
DAVID H. MURDOCK At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, w...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.
DAVID H. MURDOCK We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodie...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do som...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
DAVID H. MURDOCK From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... te...
DAVID H. MILLAR Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search DAVID H. HUBEL This guidance helps make sure that adequate management controls are in place to ensure that taxpayer...
DAVID H. SAFAVIAN Crossing the meadow, he came again to the mouth of the cave where he had stood so undecided only the...
DAVID H. KELLER After the immediate crisis has subsided, we will re-evaluate the need for this provision.
DAVID H. SAFAVIAN Relax a bit. Policy beat politics once again. (Maybe the American system isn't really that bad.) The...
DAVID H. SAFAVIAN Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.
DAVID H. HACKWORTH We have relearned since 9/11 the timeless lesson that we don’t always get to fight the wars for wh...
DAVID H. PETRAEUS If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligat...
DAVID H. HACKWORTH I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.
DAVID H. MURDOCK I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me wha...
DAVID H. MURDOCK When I open my mouth, the room rings.
DAVID H. MURDOCK I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything el...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people heal...
DAVID H. MURDOCK My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.
DAVID H. MURDOCK Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think s...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.
DAVID H. MURDOCK Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
DAVID H. MURDOCK Exercise your brain and body, keep engaged with work and friends, and feed your brain with a healthy...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful ...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of ...
DAVID H. KOCH I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about...
DAVID H. KOCH I believe in gay marriage.
DAVID H. KOCH 'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.
DAVID H. KOCH I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can cont...
DAVID H. KOCH When I was a bachelor with a different girl on my arm every week, people didn't think I was quit...
DAVID H. KOCH I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.
DAVID H. KOCH The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the...
DAVID H. KOCH I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a socia...
DAVID H. KOCH When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it...
DAVID H. KOCH The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned...
DAVID H. KOCH I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.
DAVID H. KOCH Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb’s bedroom, but their impact was somewha...
DAVID H. MILLAR I'd like to be a successful author before my hairline recedes further! OK I'm vain
DAVID H. MILLAR Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Important things are not things.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Respect, don't suspect.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live marr...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of th...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so b...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the o...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea o...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall always be a priest of love.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the int...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, n...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himsel...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versati...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much mor...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks c...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffin...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations ba...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God is only a great imaginative experience.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeolo...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You were a lord if you had a horse...
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life,...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty line...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing ho...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of s...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morn...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominio...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individu...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa...
H. JANICKI An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
H. POWERS A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le...
H MATHEWS Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
H. STEIN The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
H. OGILVIE If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.
H. BERGH I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the ...
TRIPLE H A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
H. MATHEWS