The first million words are the hardest.
Francis Hamit
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JANE YATES Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The first hundred years are the hardest.
WILLIAM MIZNER The First 80 Years Are the Hardest.
CAROL CHANNING The hardest thing for me is restraint.
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
HALSEY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
LIAM HEMSWORTH The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.
GIAMBATTISTA VALLI Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Ho...
FRANCIS CHAN The first five days after the weekend are always the hardest.
ANONYMOUS Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
EDDIE MARSAN The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
ELLEN G. WHITE Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
BARRY GIBB People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographe...
PLATON Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
RICKI LAKE I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
JEFFREY ARCHER The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blok...
SHANE WARNE Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that'...
MORGAN FREEMAN The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
FAITH HILL Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
OSCAR WILDE Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The first step is the hardest.
MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROND Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
J.J. MCAVOY For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
KIN HUBBARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
DAVE CHAPPELLE I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
KAT GRAHAM Words are useless. Use your eyes to say a million things.
GABRIELLA JORDING While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES The first boy was always the hardest.
SARAH DESSEN The first step is always the hardest
SARAH DESSEN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
CAROL BURNETT The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL The hardest part is that some of the words do have syllables in common with other words. You can con...
GREG TIPPMAN Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.
SAM KEEN But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ...
ROBERT SARAH The act of benevolence speaks louder than a million words.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The hardest step to take is always the first one.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
TENA DESAE The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
VICTOR GARBER The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
AYN RAND Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're ...
WILLIE ROBERTSON Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of beca...
STEPHEN KING The rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which ar...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.
DEYTH BANGER The saying "seek first the kingdom",simply means seek first a veritable philosophy of life & abundan...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...
ABERJHANI Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
PAT NIXON We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ...
OSHO The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that...
ADAM MCKAY One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
OCTAVIA SPENCER My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
MANNY MONTANA Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
GWEN STEFANI And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.
SARAH DESSEN One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example
BRENT M. JONES When you lose someone you truly care about, there are no words. Just the pain of pure emotional enta...
ANGELA PORISKY The strokes are the hardest.
DONNA THOMPSON Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he i...
KEN HAM Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA When the bridge first opened, October 25, 1931, that first year, 5.5 million vehicles used the bridg...
ERNESTO BUTCHER Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
CAROL BERG By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than...
BETTY HART Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve i...
DESHAWN STEVENSON Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in th...
TOM DASCHLE I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that ra...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Senate passed a pretty good bill and we don't want to see it put in the dumpster.
JAMES BRADY One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl J...
JAMES EARL JONES I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traum...
PAIGE VANZANT In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably ov...
NEIL GAIMAN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The mo...
ROBERT SARAH Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.
K.A. TUCKER Life managed without males for its first billion years, much of which was passed as single cells in ...
STEVE JONES The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
ROBERT DE NIRO The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
JAMES BROWN It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
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GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
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FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
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FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
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where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
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of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
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FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
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FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
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FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
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FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
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FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
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FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
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FRANCIS BACON Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
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FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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FRANCIS BACON The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight
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FRANCIS BACON If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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FRANCIS BEAUMONT