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Related Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... 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 If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ... LEONARD BOSWELL Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be? ANTHONY T. HINCKS What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.” ROSS ELDER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary a... RONALD KESSLER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... GERMANY KENT Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodnes... GERMANY KENT Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach t... 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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN He has a very difficult task before him, ... I fear that as an adviser who lacks statutory mandate, ... JOSEPH LIEBERMAN You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authorit... CHARLES HUDSON It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one. PATTI DIGH Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON
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KAWHI LEONARD Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands ou... LEONARD COHEN Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show... LEONARD WOODCOCK If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the... LEONARD LAUDER I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me... LEONARD COHEN It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig... LEONARD SUSSKIND 'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our... LEONARD MLODINOW Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo... LEONARD NIMOY Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des... LEONARD COHEN Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t... LEONARD COHEN Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. LEONARD COHEN I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ... LEONARD COHEN Music is the emotional life of most people. LEONARD COHEN It takes a long time to grow an old friend. JOHN LEONARD This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ... LEONARD COHEN A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. LEONARD COHEN Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sound... LEONARD MLODINOW I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot... LEONARD COHEN I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w... LEONARD NIMOY I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. LEONARD SLATKIN Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr... LEONARD SUSSKIND I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin... LEONARD COHEN Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m... LEONARD MALTIN Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and th... ELMORE LEONARD Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex... LEONARD BERNSTEIN