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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.


John C. Crosby

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STUART CHASE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much...
CAROLINE GREEN Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love as Einstein stated which is very t...
GARY F EVANS... Without law,there will be no sin,without the rich,there wil be no the poor & without truth,there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An...
C.J. ROBERTS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or no...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward conscio...
JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea...
JOHN GREEN …iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune cât de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș...
JOHN GREEN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Nimic nu-i mai rău pentru caracterul omului decât să fi mândru de faptele tale bune. Fie că te ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Viața noastră e ca o călătorie pe pământ: prea ușoară și monotonă de-a lungul întinselor ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Lumea nu merită sacrificiul de a trăi pentru ea, cu atât mai puțin de a muri.
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se află în jilțul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, �...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS E greu să-ți imaginezi lumea fără un creator, dar prefer să nu-mi închipui că faptele oamenil...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its hou...
ILONA ANDREWS Betrayal can be a double edged sword , you can get stabbed in the back and manipulated by it.On the ...
GARY F EVANS... The just society where the law will be above every man,is the type of society we should all endeavor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other...
JOHN LENNON A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and...
ARTHUR MILLER John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us a...
EUGENE KENNEDY Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con...
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
JOHN GREEN As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart ...
JOHN GREEN I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody c...
JOHN GREEN The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet a...
JOHN GREEN Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
JOHN GREEN All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
JOHN GREEN It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
JOHN GREEN Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
JOHN GREEN All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w...
C.S. LEWIS Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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GARY F EVANS... Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the
wi...
C.S. LEWIS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. If we need a law passed, obviously we need the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass that ...
MICHAEL MOORE How can you see and sue something invisible?
TOBA BETA Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI

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JOHN C. WHITE People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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JOHN C. MAXWELL Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
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JOHN C. MCGINLEY If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly al...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
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JOHN C. MATHER The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft...
JOHN C. STENNIS Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only r...
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JOHN C. BURTON We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
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JOHN C. MATHER Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical ele...
JOHN C. MATHER I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
JOHN C. HAWKES Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
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JOHN C. MAXWELL Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
JOHN C. MATHER Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrow...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary;...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards&#...
JOHN C. STENNIS Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking proces...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my l...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.
JOHN C. MATHER I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prospe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changin...
JOHN C. REILLY Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and mov...
JOHN C. MAXWELL And look what it gets President Bush: It just gets him a kick in the rear, ... That's what they've d...
JOHN C. DANFORTH The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY What is consciousness?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he replied, after a little hesitation. “N...
JOHN C. LENNOX A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and va...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as t...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great...
JOHN C. CALHOUN People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must gi...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind ...
JOHN C. LENNOX Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without softwa...
JOHN C. MATHER It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
JOHN C. MAXWELL As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
JOHN C. HAWKES In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
JOHN C. HAWKES