The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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SANDRA K. COOK I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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GARY F EVANS... It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so ha...
DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO What if you couldn't bank on a future...what would you do now? Things can change in the blink of an ...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???
What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
ARSENE WENGER Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN When you see something "FUN" and "EASY" ,, Trust ME.. it is "HARD" TO DO IT! .. But it's not Impossi...
MOHAMMAD SULAIMAN ALJABER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenaci...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE ...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
ISAAC MARION Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it !
EPHDAN So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM Just because it's a trend should we do it?
BERT MCCOY You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
PHILIP T. M. 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 Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS... His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
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ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
-Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT Don't worry, don't panic.
MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS You own the first day of your life. You own the last. And you own everything in between.
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST) A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a si...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
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2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Let your vision be ahead of your sight! Dream beyond what you see and never let your environment det...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Let's don't do it again and again, posting the same, saying the same and the same. It's pointless!
DEYTH BANGER Don't take it easy until life goes down to your level.
EMILY THOMAS He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it
CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND i can only change, what i can do with my own hands.
MOHAMMED ABDI MOHAMMED Saying tomorrow only risks your chances of waking up after today.
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URSULA ANDRESS I hate the word sexy.
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URSULA ANDRESS I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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PETE BURNS Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
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BROOKE BURNS Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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PETE BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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GEORGE BURNS Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be for...
ROBERT BURNS The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
ROBERT BURNS O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a b...
ROBERT BURNS Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNS The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.
GEORGE BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE BURNS Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS Let us do or die.
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GEORGE BURNS Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
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GEORGE BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS How can I die? I'm booked.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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GEORGE BURNS Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
GEORGE BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha...
GEORGE BURNS Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
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ROBERT BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w...
H.S.M. BURNS The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
GEORGE BURNS The Thames is liquid history.
JOHN BURNS I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
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ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free,
I'll be sad for nae-body;
If nae-body cares for me,
I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing:
But, och! it hardens a' within,
...
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
from the poem
The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS