The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in... EDITH WHARTON Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY 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 The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any dir... EUGENE G. GRACE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be t... SAMUEL JOHNSON You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD All of us are products of some sort of conditioning. If you don't like the way your life is panning ... TROY GATHERS Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensat... ALBERTO CAEIRO Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the... ISMAIL KADARE Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO In order to establish the true value of a function, one must take it to its limits. And it's clear t... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked f... ANTONIO GRAMSCI Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh... DEBASISH MRIDHA When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all be c... ISAAC D'ISRAELI Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to ... ISAAC D'ISRAELI The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolu... G.K. CHESTERTON I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Ger... TIBOR FISCHER I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far ... JOHN STUART MILL Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, i... SHIV KHERA For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that ... WILLIAM BARCLAY The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th... JOHN STUART MILL I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Why things are not easy?
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'Cause life is not. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Only God is good." "We can make good works, We can be called good folks We can ... MAC CANOZA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate rel... SANDRA LERNER What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they... AVIJEET DAS If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t... TOM ROBBINS What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK
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