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The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.


Laurence Gonzales

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Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much...
CAROLINE GREEN Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
MLADEN ĐORđEVIć His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ...
RICHIE NORTON Move forward doesn´t mean avoiding the pain,
but look towards a new day in spite of the rain.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
WERNER ERHARD Dreams for the future are when we see the value of God's plan for us.
JIM GENOVESE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL People now spend a better part of their life “jacked into” a digital world while (still) walking...
CLYDE DESOUZA Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!
THE JOKER - HEATH LEDGER The last drive, to me, I can see it better on film than I can see it as a memory. My memory is a blu...
JUSTIN HOLLAND If the shoe fits, wear it. If not, kick it aside and walk on.
RAIN BOJANGLES VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM 'Desperate Housewives' was a surprise hit, ... If it holds up, if it's successful this year, certain...
STEVE STERNBERG I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW History...becomes present, if we can see the past with Augmented Reality
CLYDE DESOUZA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW It crippled the crack trade for a while in Gonzales,
SAN ANTONIO This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadne...
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS You take someone who took a program that's similar to what you're inheriting and see what they did, ...
BARRY ALVAREZ Don't leave home without your visor, it's an ugly world out there
CLYDE DESOUZA May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER It is like presenting to future investors. I mean, I plan on using this money for the business that ...
GRANT FINSTER It's something that fits very well with this community. In the future, you will see some joint proje...
FRANK HARRIS It sounds good to us, but let's see if it becomes a reality.
JOSE VASQUEZ Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Lau...
LESLIE NIELSEN God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on i...
JIM GEORGE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... If a nation does not plan her future, she is planning to fail
SUNDAY ADELAJA Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa...
TOBA BETA Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
JULIO CORTáZAR I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.
GOTTFRIED BENN When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ...
MARGARET ATWOOD He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed thro...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
ALFRED WHITEHEAD Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack...
ANGELA CARTER ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER Reality does not create the entire womb of human life. We have eyes that witness truth and beauty. W...
KILROY J. OLDSTER There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on su...
DANIEL DENNETT The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD Life's irony;When a lady meets her future spouse,what comes to her naughty mind is this,"the way he ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past.
JAIME CONTRERAS If the shoe fits, wear it
PROVERB What the WGA has endorsed is not an immigration plan 'based in reality,' but a surrender plan based ...
DAN STEIN If we have colder-than-normal weather, we'll see a bit of a shock to the economy, ... I plan to put ...
ANTOINE HALFF Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec...
SHERRY THOMAS The greatest mystery of all: tomorrow.
MARTY RUBIN But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as...
CALEB DESCHANEL Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
ASHIM SHANKER That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live ...
JEFF VANDERMEER

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LAURENCE GONZALES What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
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LAURENCE GONZALES Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES don't see what's going on.
LAURENCE GONZALES They think, 'If something bad happens, it doesn't matter whose fault it is, I'm going to take care o...
LAURENCE GONZALES We're all born with the survival instinct. But I think the true survivors, who get out of really bad...
LAURENCE GONZALES I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
PANCHO GONZALES As you might imagine, he's got many friends that he'll see as he travels . . . and they'll suggest t...
ALBERTO GONZALES This may be the most important thing a president does.
ALBERTO GONZALES We take each individual, each case, case by case,
ALBERTO GONZALES we are bringing this prosecution at this time because it is the appropriate thing to do.
ALBERTO GONZALES There has been significant litigation with respect to Mr. Padilla, and he has had access to counsel,...
ALBERTO GONZALES The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicio...
PANCHO GONZALES I would encourage you all to focus on what is positive in terms of what is going on positively in th...
ALBERTO GONZALES Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,
ALBERTO GONZALES Don't Get Caught, Ya Big Dummies!
ALBERTO GONZALES I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted, ... We have zero tolerance for corporate...
ALBERTO GONZALES Ever since we've had electronic communications, and particularly during a time of war, president...
ALBERTO GONZALES I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
ALBERTO GONZALES And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so...
MARK GONZALES I’ve loved you probably from the first moment that I met you and I will love you until my last bre...
THEA GONZALES There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of inf...
ALBERTO GONZALES It's not that we don't have the funds to improve our education system, we just give higher priority ...
MARCUS GONZALES I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confiden...
ALBERTO GONZALES She got up several times, crying with her head in her hands, but not loud outbursts.
MICHELLE GONZALES A relationship is only as open as it's most closed partner
MARCUS GONZALES Artists and geniuses tend to be the loneliest of us all
MARCUS GONZALES Terrorist attacks ... normally come in cycles, and it's unfortunate that we are in that cycle again,...
NORBERTO GONZALES You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri...
MARCUS GONZALES For me, it's (art) all about conveying my thoughts... and I'm not done saying what's on my mind.
MARCUS GONZALES What's more beautiful, inspiring, and significant than knowing just how much of the universe is with...
MARCUS GONZALES Want to know what some molecules do when you give them 4 billion years to evolve?.. they sit there a...
MARCUS GONZALES We all share a piece of the universe within us.
MARCUS GONZALES 1/1,000,000,000 Doesn't sound like a big number to most... but to me.... That's the universe.
MARCUS GONZALES When societies don't want to think critically, that is a dangerous recipe for destruction and decay.
MARCUS GONZALES I'm brown in color, race doesn't actually exist. (laughs) Silly hundred year old concepts.
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ALBERTO GONZALES Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of...
ALBERTO GONZALES I started coming to UTEP games in 1965 and became a season-ticket holder in 1970.
AL GONZALES As you might imagine, he's got many friends that he'll see as he travels ... and they'll suggest tha...
AL GONZALES This may be the most important thing a president does. We pay a lot of attention.
AL GONZALES In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact o...
JOJO GONZALES Although I don't like the phrase YOLO, I actually live like that and understand its sentiment. I liv...
MARCUS GONZALES I do hold beliefs. I believe in love, justice, and equality and I fight for them. Coincidentally, it...
MARCUS GONZALES I can't support pride for something I can't help... Never really liked that idea.
MARCUS GONZALES Science is seen as something that's "neat" when your young but disregarded when you're older. I find...
MARCUS GONZALES ‎"Knowledge and intelligence are mutually exclusive. They tend to correlate at times, but just bec...
MARCUS GONZALES Success requires a mindset and vision in order to achieve it. Once you have that vision, you'll real...
MARCUS GONZALES It really hadn't hit him yet how sick his dad was. He's had a number of strokes and he always ended ...
DAVID GONZALES We believe very strongly in this case. ... I'll have to sit down with our team of litigators and hea...
ALBERTO GONZALES I'm primarily worried about what does the president think,
ALBERTO GONZALES I think what [Snoop] did is just so shallow. He came here just so that he could take away from us wh...
SANDY GONZALES We're...looking very closely at the issue of fraudulent charities. We're looking at price gouging. I...
ALBERTO GONZALES We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in...
ALBERTO GONZALES So if you're in another state, what you do is surrender your AAA membership card in lieu of payment....
PAUL GONZALES Those who seek that third option, who step above prejudice, who excite others to challenge the bound...
MARCUS GONZALES I put the sexy in dyslexia.
MARIAH GONZALES He's making big plays for us and he doesn't really know what he's doing yet. Once he realizes what h...
BILLY GONZALES It's the ultimate toy box.
TOM GONZALES Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with...
RANDY GONZALES These are the worst imaginable forms of child pornography.
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MARCUS GONZALES Things are only as good or as bad as you make them seem.
MONICA GONZALES You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is go...
ALBERTO GONZALES We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualificati...
ALBERTO GONZALES I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fra...
ALBERTO GONZALES We started the season with a little setback because we had to have two seniors move to the setter po...
VICTORIA GONZALES Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling eviden...
ALBERTO GONZALES Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold...
ALBERTO GONZALES As the court noted today, the authority to detain enemy combatants like Jose Padilla plays an import...
ALBERTO GONZALES I'm looking forward to some strong competition at the state tournament.
ALBERTO GONZALES These included violent offenders, drug dealers and gang members. This is an important step in ensuri...
ALBERTO GONZALES I disagree we waited too long to focus on this issue,
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ALBERTO GONZALES Clearly, there are privilege issues that have to be considered. As a general matter, we would not be...
ALBERTO GONZALES We were creating chances which was great, but we just couldn't get any shots to go in.
DONATO GONZALES That was a surprise. She's [Richmond is] a talented player, and give her a little bit of space, and ...
DONATO GONZALES It was a great win for us. We had four players out so it was a great effort by the girls out there, ...
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CARLOS GONZALES We do our promotions and we have everyone from the small child in the house to the grandmother.
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DAVID GONZALES When language (in the agreement) requires local labor, we want to make sure our guys have the opport...
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ALBERTO GONZALES Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of en...
ALBERTO GONZALES The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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ALBERTO GONZALES Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about i...
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ALBERTO GONZALES In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to...
ALBERTO GONZALES I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to ma...
ALBERTO GONZALES Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privileg...
ALBERTO GONZALES But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even ...
ALBERTO GONZALES I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of do...
ALBERTO GONZALES At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho...
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ALBERTO GONZALES I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.
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GREG GONZALES The town doesn't exist anymore.
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ISAAC GONZALES It was pretty easy to cross (illegally) the border back then. You still had to sneak across and hide...
ISAAC GONZALES I wasn't afraid at all. Growing up on a ranch, you're never afraid.
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MARIA GONZALES They're part of the community.
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MANUEL GONZALES You could smell the smell of death in there, ... I personally saw three dead bodies in the ER (emerg...
MANUEL GONZALES She said she'd have knock-down, drag-out fights with her mom because she favored her brother and wou...
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MALINDA GONZALES I would ask her questions over and over again,
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MALINDA GONZALES [Dell's] model of jumping into a market when it is at its fastest pace of expansion and establishing...
JOE GONZALES You probably don't want to hear that, right ladies? In Mexico, men don't want to be challenged.
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JOSE GONZALES We don't like to see large babies; we want babies to be normal size.
JOSE GONZALES Having a very big baby is not good,
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PAUL GONZALES Both of the games that we played against them were real good and luckily we got them at home. We're ...
MATT GONZALES We talked about it all week in practice that we killed this team last time and wanted to go in like ...
MATT GONZALES To be honest, it was frustrating. It's hard. It's really hard for an athlete.
MATT GONZALES Our neighborhood needed a coffee shop.
ROSEMARY GONZALES I think right now it is a serious race and it's a competitive race, but it is somewhat on hold becau...
NATHAN GONZALES Justice must serve offenders and victims as well as the economy and the general public,
ALBERTO GONZALES There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi...
LAURENCE STERNE Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to...
LAURENCE STERNE The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
LAURENCE LEAMER If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
LAURENCE STERNE The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
LAURENCE STERNE What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER