Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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Related To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ... F. SIONIL JOSE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM There are no ghosts. Belief in ghosts is a backward idea, a superstition and a sign of cowardice. Th... CHI-FANG HO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES 14. God created two sexes, male and female. They are equal in worth, although each is unique and dif... JAMES C. DOBSON The reason why human beings fail to create real connections with others, is due to the fact that the... C. JOYBELL C. (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is al... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency t... M. SCOTT PECK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Life is a magical game so play it with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. STEPHEN KING Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. STEPHEN KING Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they d... CHRIS HEDGES Philosophers think deep and forget to live for the present. They admire beauty so much that they are... EPHDAN It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there ... ROMAN PAYNE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED It's so hard to fight against ghosts, when they say there's evidence and it's not there. LYNNE STEWART The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to... C. JOYBELL C. Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. STEPHEN KING ...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. STEPHEN KING 'A Land of Ghosts' is a sizzling pilgrimage, haunted by trenchant foreboding that this topmost cream... EDWARD HOAGLAND Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of... ALICE OSWALD Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig... KOFI ANNAN Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns... MAX PORTER Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... DEYTH BANGER Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must b... STEVE BIKO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. JOEL BARLOW It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take respons... NEIL GAIMAN If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are... WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotr... CRISS JAMI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam o... CONRAD BLACK When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneli... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amount... ANDY WEBSTER What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sor... HENRIK IBSEN What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all
that 'walks in us.' There are all s... HENRIK IBSEN Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you c... JEFF GRUBB Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they... CHARLOTTE BRONTE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Students are residents, too. They need to have a voice. They need to get out and vote to prove they ... KAREN SNYDER The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI There is no peace to be taken/ With poets who are young,/ For they worry about the wars to be fought... JOYCE KILMER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected ... RUTH BADER GINSBURG They are wonderful craftsmen who play with a great sense of humor and scale. They easily take a symb... GREGORY KNIGHT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is ... GEORGE ORWELL Even though it's not an above average wage, there is still half the population making less than that... LYNN GRAY Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not eas... PERICLES Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not ea... PERICLES Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not eas... PERICLES Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i... CLAY SHIRKY True success is not the end of the journey; true success is a journey without an end. So many people... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the ... ANNE RICE When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing. SHANE HARPER Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of adve... JAMES ROZOFF It is an immoral war that they are beginning and we must not be silenced. We have to be able to stan... JESSICA LANGE It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians... BRENNAN MANNING I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel t... EVELYN WAUGH Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. WINSTON CHURCHILL Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed WINSTON CHURCHILL I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, ... NIALL FERGUSON 31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and mus... JAMES C. DOBSON They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their a... CRISS JAMI 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall... JAMES C. DOBSON As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerabl... CHRISTINA ENGELA 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON Why do people insist on creating things that will inevitably be destroyed? Why do people cling to li... KEFKA - FINAL FANTASY 6 Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t... JACOB BRONOWSKI
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