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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND 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...

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON 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 cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR 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 Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.
VIVIENNE MING We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they ...
WALTER WINCHELL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST 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 What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER We have to address the unique nature of crimes motivated by bias. Not that they are worse than a dif...
REP. DAVID LITVACK You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA The notion that they are worse drivers than I am because they work as a store clerk is ridiculous. T...
JAMES KASTER We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they ...
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they a...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they ...
MALCOLM S. FORBES When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they a...
THICH NHAT HANH Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD Overall though, we don't see them as being any worse than numbers from elsewhere, in fact they are p...
JOHN MEYER The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say ...
AUGUSTE RODIN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN Fair play to them, they have been doing very well but we are going to try to catch them. We have pic...
DARREN FLETCHER I think they are actually considerably worse (than soft drinks).
DANIEL MARKS The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse t...
DANIEL BERRIGAN What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN It's worse than that when you see all these people whose homes are gone and they got nothing.
JOHN BRYANT [One positive is that] there's very little news that could make psychology much worse, and you'll ju...
ARNIE BERMAN We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, t...
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enou...
ROBERT LYNN ASPRIN France's image is much worse than the reality. We have cut taxes and made reforms.
CLARA GAYMARD Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none
THOMAS FULLER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse t...
ROSS BAKER We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo...
ANGIE KARAN I think in many ways they torment mainstream Americans because we worry sometimes that they may be h...
DON KRAYBILL A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then kn...
AESOP In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.
NEIL GAIMAN We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwilli...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than ...
JILL CONNER BROWNE They are not demons, not devils...
Worse than that.
They are people.
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We say a country is bad,when the few bad people decide to be more active than the many good people &...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
FREDERICH WILHELM NIETZCHE Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians
MARCEL PROUST Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
MARCEL PROUST There's still a gap between perception and reality. People tend to think import vehicles are a littl...
CHRIS DENOVE Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our childr...
GEORGE ELIOT We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adv...
JOHN ELDREDGE There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think t...
PIERS MORGAN The Jews are members of the human race - worse I can say of no man
MARK TWAIN Ignorance is simply the absence of knowledge, but even with knowledge we must apply. If not, we are ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Who says we are that good anyway? One week we're worse than dirt, and then the next week we are bett...
MICHAEL STRAHAN We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of livin...
DOUGLAS JERROLD There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify a...
H. N. ELLESSY Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.
RICK RIORDAN All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING They are usually off the hook financially. But what they are going to have to endure is far worse th...
BETH GIVENS They are usually off the hook financially, ... But what they are going to have to endure is far wors...
BETH GIVENS The Indians are master-psychologists. They know they have to deal with us because they are literally...
HENRY KISSINGER There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than the...
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JEAN COCTEAU Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

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