David Levering Lewis
Related DEYTH BANGER A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD FLANNERY O'CONNOR ELODIE YUNG ARTHUR MILLER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON DON SHULA C. JOYBELL C. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS MIKE DITKA MAX BEERBOHM A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing Americ... ALEXANDER ROSSI A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion. TED NAIFEH The way to do it right is to take every kid aside one by one and tell them privately what they did w... ALAN GOLDBERG Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING CRAIG GROESCHEL There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyo... BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH It seems to be easier to judge a failure, or at least the perception of one, than it is to claim a s... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE DEBASISH MRIDHA ADAM DRIVER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS CHLOE THURLOW DANIEL KAHNEMAN Failure is lesson while success may stuck up one and one may not be inclined to discover more innova... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. ALAN PRICE NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER RICK RIORDAN SHERYL SANDBERG It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON LAUREN MYRACLE C. JOYBELL C. Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER RICHELLE E. GOODRICH FABRIZIO MOREIRA One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You l... DAVID BARRON There is but one failure, and that is, not to be true to the very best one knows CANON FARRAR ROBERT KIYOSAKI Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - tha... KELLY ASBURY YAMI GAUTAM JIM LEE Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You... BJORN ULVAEUS There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for basebal... MICHAEL LEWIS There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL CRAIG GROESCHEL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they ... MICHAEL MUSTO Every failure is a success, there is always a lesson to be learned within failure. KISHAN S CHAUHAN MICHAEL KORDA GERMANY KENT KEVIN SMITH NEIL STRAUSS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON BRIAN BLESSED 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... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... BERNIE SIEGEL Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human s... JEFFREY MOUNT Persistence is moving from failure to failure,searching for elusive success that can never be bought... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER H. L. MENCKEN CRAIG GROESCHEL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA GEORGE ELIOT No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see wit... SRIVIDYA SRINIVASAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH GERMANY KENT VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER JIM ROHN You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets i... DAVE VAN RONK ERIK PEVERNAGIE Never lament on failure, never be arrogant on great achievement. Set back is just to remind to mend ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not a... MAX LANDIS Failure is not the end of a story it's only an intermission for a success. KOWSALAPATHY HENRY FORD At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner ... ERIN CUMMINGS JAMES SUROWIECKI BEN CARSON
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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... 
Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the v... 
It is a lie. 
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. 
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. 
What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. Ther... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% c... 
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A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... 
And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidenc... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
To love is to act. 
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How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is ask... 
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Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence. 
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You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time. 
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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. 
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. 
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. 
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. 
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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. 
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. 
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Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over. 
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able. 
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