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No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We will be there to protest the government's provocations.
EFFI EITAM Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations
SUNDAY ADELAJA We condemn such provocations on both sides. This is counterproductive and is only fanning tensions.
ALEXANDER KALUGIN The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason t...
PAULINE KAEL The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART We must submit to God's righteous rule.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We have a long-term contract with this little group called Mary Kay. It's unlikely we'll even submit...
PHILLIP JONES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO The first spring, William was with us at home. We were able to participate in the Great Walk and we ...
MARK WARD [They were too powerful for Sen. John Sherman (R-Ohio).] If we would not submit to an emperor, ... w...
JOHN SHERMAN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON We're going to submit our proposal to the government to evaluate. We're not going to put it out to t...
GORDON ABSHER Never submit we are all equals
HEATHER NELSON We often wrestle ourselves, because we so easily submit to other people's influence.
BRANDON A. TREAN we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI We live in relative world with relatives.
DEYTH BANGER The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
CHINESE PROVERB For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book.....
KJFORCE We are all joined in a circle of stories.
LINDA JOY MYERS There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.
ROBERT LYND Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they thi...
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...
Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU We explicitly asked people not to submit divisive themes at cabinet.
KRISTA COMER CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
AMBROSE BIERCE We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
HUEY NEWTON "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some doctors resent the patients coming in with this information. We see that.
BILL MCLAUGHLIN Of two evils we must always choose the least.
THOMAS A KEMPIS We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others; while we act as evils.
M.F. MOONZAJER We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq
resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY We have miles to go before we're ready to submit the final budget.
BERNARD CURRIE Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
VOLTAIRE When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA remain calm, and I ask them not to give in to provocations.
LAURENT GBAGBO “In search of Angels, we choose lesser evils.” – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ We have an obligation to submit all the documents requested by the authorities.
JUAN FERNANDEZ Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT