This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I am useless. I must fire my rife true. I must shoot before he shoots me. And I will. - Marine Rife Creed
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Related Pessimism is rife in Israel. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Prague is not rife in Asian culture. THOMAS GIBSON Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first boo... ASHWIN SANGHI I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories. ALLISON TOLMAN Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -... CAROLYN WELLS Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -... CAROLYN WELLS Music is my life. ROBERT ILER Music is my life. It is sacred. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meani... ALBERT SCHWEITZER I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent diff... ANNA SHEEHAN I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come u... LYNSEY ADDARIO teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. GUNTHER SCHULLER We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide. CHRIS GIBSON Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs an... AISHA MIRZA Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. LENNY KRAVITZ For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. PARKER J. PALMER My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE Every man has an option i.e LIFE or WIFE; but if he wants both of his own, then his living has to ha... ANUJ SOMANY Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I mus... EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion,... HAMZA YUSUF Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregar... TAWNI O'DELL Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices... MARIELLA FROSTRUP May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master, let me call hi... HENRY GEORGE I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now ... LUCY LAWLESS I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. SYLVIA PLATH If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me DOUG BOYD My life is short. I can't listen to banality. V. S. NAIPAUL Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung.... FRANZ KAFKA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ... FRANZ KAFKA ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER I am strong because love is my strength. I am beautiful because kindness is my beauty. I am a succes... DEBASISH MRIDHA I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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I find but little safety from my shield,
Nature... ARCHILOCHUS Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buyin... STEVE HANKE My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day... JULIE KAGAWA "To me it's not a ... This is my ... This is my ... I was going to say this is my life. It's not my ... JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING In my ideal life, I am ... If there's something on the list that I am not, I must ask myself if it's... JAN DENISE I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. TOM STOPPARD this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. MAYA ANGELOU You want a piece of all this fabulousness?" He gestured to himself. "Well, my best friend com... CASSANDRA CLARE Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rif... DARELL HAMMOND We Are All Zeros But We Can Make Ourselves As Heroes DR. ARUN S SON Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ... AUDREY HEPBURN All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does ... PIERCE BROWN Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su... JALAL AD-DIN RUMI As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, kee... KRISTIN HANNAH I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction! NIKKI REED Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, el... SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI This will be a very realistic experience for me. I am ready to put my best effort out there because ... FARAH GHIAS I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is... SHANNON L. ALDER This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own. ZHANG YIMOU Sharing true love and connectivity to others in my life means that I must continually be asking myse... JOEY TALLADINO Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up th... KARAN JOHAR That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, eve... , VLOGBROTHERS, MY NAME IS JOHN GREEN. AND I AM A NERD., 10-30-07 I came here with nothing and not being aware of anything when I arrived, and I shall go with nothing... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo... M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign. MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain, MY MORNING JACKET And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its pain... C.S. LEWIS "MY Vision, MY Purpose, My Life
Is dependent on this moment.
I am disciplined, I am focused, I am re... JONATHAN WILLIAM SIMOS My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends. SANTOSH KALWAR There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in thi... CHARLES TAYLOR Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and wha... KASKADE I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf... CATE BLANCHETT All which is regarded as ‘my’, belongs to the non-Self. ‘I’ is the Self and ‘my’ is of t... DADA BHAGWAN Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot... EMILY BRONTE Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my l... VINCENT VAN GOGH It's everything to me. My life is nothing without this place. I just love Jesus! ANGELA BRYANT Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to li... ARTHUR MILLER In my life, I served my Lord and Master, and as I depart, I keep Him enshrined in my consciousness. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unaccepta... ALICE KOLLER I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? RICHARD BACH My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without ... DIANA GABALDON It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must k... THOMAS CHATTERTON
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