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The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit.


Maud Gonne

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DERRICK JENSEN Birds in the high Hall-garden/ When twilight was falling,/ Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,/ They were crying...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON To stop us, they want to scare us. They will never succeed, ... We will fulfill the goals she sacrif...
ANATOLY CHUBAIS Not any soul on this earth can withstand the assault of the spirit. They may not accept it, they may...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
JAMES HOWE Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and livin...
ROBIN HOBB The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...
AUDRE LORDE With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Wit...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, chi...
GEORGE ELIOT Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones...
ROBERT FULGHUM The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.
MOHAMMED ALDOURI We will move forward and as a community and a community spirit we will succeed in the future.
TOM O'BRIEN While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will b...
RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON His breaking ball worked really well. Seven of his 12 strikeouts, the batter went down looking, didn...
JEFF TAGEANT His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants ha...
JAMES BARRIE His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants ha...
JAMES M. BARRIE One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us brok...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on ...
OMAR TORRIJOS HERRERA But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
ROBERT FULGHUM They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.
MEL GIBSON The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everythin...
BRAD PITT As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy...
DEBORAH SAMPSON He's an example of not giving up. People who can fight will succeed. He'll succeed - he's got a figh...
ALEX FIGERT The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Mom and Dad are our first love by nature, our pride by law and our strength in weakness. They may no...
ETC WANYANWU Real entrepreneurs are never crazy about degrees,but ideas & if they succeed in implementing their i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,
LUIS GUTIERREZ And may be between building and breaking we find our lives somewhere.

Building dreams, ea...
WORDIONS We recognize that the most important job we have in front of us is to make sure our seventh- and eig...
AMBER DIXON Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but mo...
MARTIN YAN We want to help Odessa succeed. Our intent is to educate people, not so they can speak for us, but s...
MARIO CONTRERAS Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The next three years will be decisive for us, ... If we don't succeed in the next three years, there...
WOLFGANG BERNHARD We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its...
HENRY JOHN NEWMAN Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the s...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do noth...
JAMES I DYER Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
RICHARD G. SCOTT God's Spirit moves so that His people will move! Like a tree being blown by the wind, we need the Wi...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK Never let doubt overcome your will to succeed
TYLER D. WICKE Some Germans may not have supported our war, but they supported us in other ways.
COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extreme...
HENRY LAWSON You may not necessarily succeed If you try but you will always fail If you don't.
NURUDEEN USHAWU We hope they succeed because they'll help us succeed.
JOSEPH PALAIA High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking...
RUDYARD KIPLING Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help u...
GENE MCSWEENEY You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA We're anxious for DOD to succeed. We know they will succeed.
LINDA M. SPRINGER God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work ...
MOTHER TERESA The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. What a great way from them to be involves. They may not be on the roof with me, but they are here in...
HANK CHARDOS We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There may be a nationwide split on immigration policy, but Americans are nearly unanimous in their s...
MAURO E. MUJICA Sometimes they can't speak English, and sometimes they just don't want to tell us they can understan...
BOB PRATT We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spir...
C. V. RAMAN In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we c...
AUSTIN CLARKE "Negative Thoughts" will never solve your problems; but surely they will cause a Big Loss... "Positi...
KEDAR SUNIL SUPEKAR We always believed at some point a light will start breaking front us guiding us to our dreams and t...
MOHAMMED BAJAMAN I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
CARL W. BUECHNER It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
JIM MORRISON We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fail...
NICK VUJICIC Trust means that they will never throw our pain and vulnerabilities in our face. Trust means we know...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what i...
ALBERTO MANGUEL One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor; And so in ours, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had lov...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Life is never without purpose, free will allows us, Gods promise binds us, His truths find us, His S...
TAURUS MORGAN If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindne...
ROMA DOWNEY God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
OSWALD CHAMBERS You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again belie...
MARCO RUBIO The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
MARGARET HALSEY We make our own beer batter for the halibut.
KAREN HENDERSON We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their wa...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
HARRI HOLKERI If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh....
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful...
MOHANDAS GANDHI That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cove...
JOSEPH SMITH That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cove...
JOSEPH SMITH They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out o...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Most stuff they teach us in school we will never need in life, that's why over the breaks its forgot...
LIL TREYCO The pieces in the trailer suggest you may get older but you can stay immature forever.
PETER TRAVERS Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.
CYC JOUZY Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDEN I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongu...
ANNE RICE We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, wi...
ELIZABETH FISHEL Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are determined to.
UNKNOWN We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: ...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
JOS We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how...
ANNE BRONTë For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily...
AUDRE LORDE Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!
GROUCHO MARX Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that n...
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MAUD I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.
MAUD WELZEN I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
MAUD CASEY We have quite a good policy for big companies but we have the same rules for small companies. If you...
MAUD OLOFSSON It's slightly less job security during these two years, but it is a way for employers to test whethe...
MAUD OLOFSSON We must have a system in which young people can get a foothold in the job market.
MAUD OLOFSSON He was born before they were testing the blood supply. By the time he recovered from all the things ...
MAUD NAROLL Someone from Iran doesn't need to order the tape with the gays and the topless woman. They'll get an...
MAUD BREDERO This is not meant to make fun of ourselves or the people who want to come here. But people do need t...
MAUD BREDERO This notion that we want to shock Muslims, that is complete nonsense. They don't need to agree in th...
MAUD BREDERO Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY When twilight drops her curtain down
And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY For five months I got up at six o'clock and got dressed by the lamplight. The fire would not yet be ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twi...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whisper...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Here with hosts of friends
I revel who can never change or chill;
Though the fleeting years a...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Again at Park Corner. We came up to Kensington yesterday evening and drove down here. It was a beaut...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There had been an autumn storm of wind and rain, lasting for three days. Thunderous had been the cra...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hil...
MAUD HART LOVELACE You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorr...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...
MAUD HART LOVELACE It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures whi...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having priva...
MAUD HART LOVELACE It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted t...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be le...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ...
MAUD HART LOVELACE But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.
MAUD HART LOVELACE We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back her...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God s...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I am well in body although considerable rumpled up inspirit, thank you ma'am.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorr...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they li...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real troubl...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
MAUD HART LOVELACE That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever G...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decid...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
MAUD HART LOVELACE The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...
MAUD HART LOVELACE