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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick v...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars�...
BLAKE CROUCH Life itself is only a vision, a dream."
"Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--t...
MARK TWAIN We as a Navy and a nation cannot maintain a workforce that is configured for a world that no longer ...
DONALD WINTER The rest of the world has certainly got past this. This kind of censorship no longer exists anywhere...
ROBERT LANTOS The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise ...
ALBERT CAMUS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year pol...
RUSH LIMBAUGH If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television...
GIULIANA RANCIC [But after Darwin's 1859 publication of] On the Origin of Species, ... The sense that you needed a w...
WILLIAM DEMBSKI Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...
HUGO BALL Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which do...
SUSAN BLACKMORE This has been a dream come true for me. The best drivers in the world and the best teams in the worl...
DAN WHELDON I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you slee...
SLIPKNOT You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an an...
KSENIA SOLO sometimes that embarrasses the player.
DICK VERMEIL Netflix shook it up, brought this whole new generation of people who said, 'I watch things when ...
MIKE COLTER If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and tha...
KARIN SLAUGHTER There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved.
FLORA NWAPA I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
YAYA DACOSTA What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy...
PHILIP K. DICK What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy...
WOODY ALLEN I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl...
FRANCES HARDINGE We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world,...
DAVID EBERSHOFF The difference between dream and desire is that a person’s dream makes him crazy to strive for the...
ANUJ SOMANY Anything you believe in, imagine and dream can become true at anytime. Therefore, believing in your ...
ABDUS SALAM I am awake and yet I dream. You can be the realist and I can be the dreamer. When our worlds collide...
KAREN A. BAQUIRAN God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
ANDRE WEIL This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never ...
TYSON FURY There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itsel...
HERMAN MELVILLE We cannot win this race by doing the same things we've been doing, ... I thank Howard Dean for makin...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
MIKE LYNCH It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embar...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re...
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re...
CARDINAL NEWMAN From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films th...
JAMES WAN My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for t...
AMIT ABRAHAM No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that w...
STEVEN WRIGHT Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a ...
ANGELIQUE KERBER I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who ab...
KATE WINSLET It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were ...
GEORGE FOREMAN It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were ...
WASHINGTON IRVING Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love th...
AARON ASHMORE Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenl...
LEO TOLSTOY This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that drea...
DIANA NYAD There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream,...
MARK TWAIN But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people....
WILLIAM LANDAY This has been my dream. This is it for me right here. I can die happy.
LECHARLES BENTLEY God cannot judge me, he has no religion!
TARIQUE SIDDIQUE MOHAMMED In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to sav...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated t...
JANE AUSTEN These are gems from a world that no longer exists -- except in our imaginations.
JAMES CAMPIGLIA But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirel...
JULIAN GREEN I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and ...
ANNE SEXTON There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I want people to know that I am a real person who exists in a real world. I am not a raped girl or v...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believ...
SANDRA BULLOCK The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this p...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this wo...
FREDERIC CHOPIN There are no more surprises and shocks in life, so that I watch the flame without agitation. For me ...
R.K. NARAYAN Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it e...
ALBERT CAMUS I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago em...
CARROLL O'CONNOR I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side an...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies an...
NOOMI RAPACE I, the great and powerful D.S. will create a harem for all the women in the world!!!! For a woman, n...
KAZUSHI HAGIWARA If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
ALBERT EINSTEIN there is no understanding between me and this world
they don't understand me and i don't care t...
ADNAN KHAN Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The designer... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a...
DAVID KELLEY I believed that no man in this world deserves me until I met you.
LUFFINA LOURDURAJ I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, t...
WENDELL BERRY Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love th...
AARON ASHMORE I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that e...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that e...
THOMAS A. EDISON The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burde...
WILLIAM MILLER I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
PAT BUCKLEY The resolve rising in her soul to die with me drew me I cannot tell you how powerfully, irresistibly...
HEINRICH VON KLEIST Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
JACK KEROUAC What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?
RICK RIORDAN I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, bre...
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