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Related To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything... WILLIAM GOLDING In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT 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 You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White ... DAVID HORSEY Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of th... FRANCIS BACON SR. I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such... HELEN ROWLAND The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of G... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA In a perfect world it would be you and me against the world. But we are not living in a perfect worl... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind... JOHN MILTON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... GERMANY KENT Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 I would not favour a fiction to keep a ... GEORGE MACDONALD Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. BLAISE PASCAL A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r... HELEN ROWLAND A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ... HELEN ROWLAND Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more ... BARBARA WALTERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS 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 People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be... E.B. WHITE To be, or not to be: what a question! E.A. BUCCHIANERI The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our... WILLIAM JAMES The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our... WILLIAM JAMES All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w... C.S. LEWIS One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will... H. L. MENCKEN You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be r... CHARLES BARKLEY Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. LORD CHESTERFIELD You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in co... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of ... ANDREW WEIL A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi... GRAHAM GREENE It [the world] must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love is purged of the inst... BERTRAND RUSSELL What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. 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 Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strengt... ANAïS NIN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a ... BIBLE As a sinful man looking at death and beyond it, into the eternal world, I need salvation. Nothing el... J. S. WHALE As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but... LORD BYRON For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it ... THOMAS CARLYLE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more go... LEMONY SNICKET There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord wit... DANIEL QUINN Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we h... WILL DURANT
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