Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
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GERMAN PROVERB Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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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... Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.
THOMAS PAINE ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not lik...
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Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To stand on the
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E. LOCKHART Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
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JOHN KEATS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak...
ANDRé GIDE The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadershi...
DOUGLAS CONANT See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT How wild it was, to let it be.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
"I...
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NEHA KOTHARI It is demeaning and extremely embarrassing and every bit as violating as a sexual assault. It ought ...
JAMES PAPILLO We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
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HARRY STYLES The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in
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SAUL ALINSKY I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent sup...
H. RIDER HAGGARD The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is,...
ISAAC ASIMOV Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I'...
LEO TOLSTOY When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
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CRISTIANO RONALDO Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
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ALAN GARNER Life is as easy as you take it to be
SIDDHARTH JAIN When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It ought to be showing off Austin as arising in film making.
BRUCE TODD This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO We see the world as it is; God sees the world, as what it could be.
ROYALTON AMBROSE The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
NARGIS FAKHRI I would ask you to envision this island not as it is but as it could be, as part of the greatest har...
DANIEL DOCTOROFF As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
JOHN STOSSEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Americans ought to be concerned about censorship and the use of information by our government. Simil...
KIRK HANSON God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could b...
GOETHE Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who ar...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who ar...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethic...
PETER SINGER As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
BIBLE As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not...
BIBLE We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN We see the world, not as it is, but as we areor,
as we are conditioned to see it.
STEPHEN R. COVEY A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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