Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.
LEIGH BARDUGO All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
JEANNE MOREAU Anything to keep the wolf at bay.
GREGG CAUDELL I'm sure Richard Kirkland did his best as warden at Pelican Bay State Prison for the short term he w...
RICK NEWTON Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of lonelin...
ROLLO MAY We maintain constant vigil to keep poachers at bay.
DHARANIDHAR BORO My message is-Keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
DONNA MILLS Thanks for watching and reading, and stick around, the best is yet to come.
DWAYNE MCDUFFIE I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the unio...
MARGARET CHO My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
DONNA MILLS It becomes a problem how to manage all these structures and keep the ocean at bay.
JOAN MESCHINO The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
DAVID BAILEY Keep doing what you do best and you’ll be the best at what you do, which is simply yet impeccably ...
YAHALI ZEINFELD In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
VERONICA ROTH People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.
MOBY The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...
WILLIAM STYRON It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
JOSH LIEB At $42.5-million, I cringed. We are at the absolute limit to keep the franchise economically feasibl...
EUGENE MELNYK According to Scripture, God is incomprehensible yet knowable, absolute yet personal
HERMAN BAVINCK who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their...
CHARLIE ANDERSON Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON The state should live up to its promise. That's absolute.
CARLOS TORRES He's just going to keep getting better. We haven't seen the best of Marcus Vick yet.
JEFF KING It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is always good to keep at bay a person who admires merely the nice picture rather than the wise q...
ANUJ SOMANY Loneliness - If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alon...
LARRY KERSTEN To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the pri...
MARTINA TUTKOVá If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi...
HELEN HUMPHREYS Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy...
TERRY PRATCHETT Productivity growth helps keep inflation at bay and allows real incomes to grow, but it makes busine...
WAYNE AYERS One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely...
JAMAICA KINCAID Thank God for allowing you to see another day. No matter what, keep trusting, keep believing, be str...
GERMANY KENT I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I ...
AVIJEET DAS I wish to keep reading.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Investors are awaiting the outcome of the central bank's policy-setting meeting tomorrow. Caution be...
AKIO YOSHINO In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is...
WILLIAM STYRON The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.
ABHIJIT NASKAR When I arrived at William Penn, the program was already set for success. It was just my job to steer...
BILL COLE Writing is at its best when writing it is like reading it.
JULIA RANZANI As the sun shines I will make hay
To keep failure at bay
For there remaineth a pay
Fo...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom...
R. I. FITZHENRY Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredo...
R. I. FITZHENRY Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep bored...
R. I. FITZHENRY Sturgeon fishing in San Pablo Bay is the best in years, and I'll predict sensational fishing in the ...
BARRY CANEVARO It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
JOSEPH PAUL GOEBBELS It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
MUHAMMAD ALI The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock an...
JOSH HAMILTON We need to keep our head down and keep digging. We'll just ride this wave out and take it to Green B...
BRIAN KELLY It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could...
J.K. ROWLING She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.
HILDA VAN STOCKUM I keep reading between the lies.
GOODMAN ACE Be calm. Keep reading.
TOM CARDAMONE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY The absolute best way to raise kind kids, is to be kind parents.
GALIT BREEN Death is life's best assignment to undertake & the only route to absolute rest.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY There are no oysters anywhere else in the state but Aransas Bay. They fished them all out.
ANTHONY GODINICH But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I’m done waiting for the pain to be...
HEIDI CULLINAN The Rider
A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I felt good, especially the first couple of innings, ... After that I kind of lost the feel of my cu...
TED LILLY I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE The ultimate goal is trying to keep some of the brightest and best in the state, not only to go to c...
BENNY WALKER I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
WARIS AHLUWALIA The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from th...
ROBERT DALLEK My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started t...
DANNY STRONG In this world of loneliness,
Betrayal was my best friend,
Whilst love stood at the door as my enemy,...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH I was more of a supporter (at Bay Springs), but this time I came back to State as a leader. It feels...
JASMINE PAYNE To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one...
BERNARD M. MARTIN Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep th...
ROBIN GREEN We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which ...
DONNA GODDARD When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
JEFF MILLER The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on thir...
BOBBY ORR He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]
UNKNOWN At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this...
SANJEEVA ANANTHAN I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
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WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
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...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
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...
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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, ...
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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.
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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.
WILLIAM BLAKE 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 COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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