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Related If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK 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) Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the ... RUCHI SANGHVI The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL I lost everything. But what the heck. This helps us keep our spirits up, and we need all the help we... ANDREW HUNTER I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a sp... RON HOWARD People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and ... DON WILDMON We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're har... NICK NOLTE We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes... KAMAND KOJOURI Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when i... CORRIE TEN BOOM Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get ... ISAK DINESEN Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get d... ISAK DINESEN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those ... ELIF SHAFAK It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to ta... GRACE GEALEY This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experi... JEFF GREENFIELD Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their th... C. JOYBELL C. If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature o... JEFF GARCIA If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL ...for love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely recip... ELIF SHAFAK I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s... GRAHAM GREENE 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... Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who a... JASON CLARKE I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled... JIM MCKAY We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on wit... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I think we have the best weekly newspaper in the Houston region. Our readers tell us over and over (... CYNTHIA CALVERT Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. KYAN DOUGLAS 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 I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we t... CAROLINE PAUL This year we can get into our three- and four-receiver sets and really get in depth with them. We ha... MARC BULGER That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try ... STEVE JOBS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We train people how to communicate with us. We do this by rewarding them when they get it right and ... TERENCE T. GORSKI We'll use it to get into areas we can't get into with our trucks or by foot. You can go on mud, thro... BRIAN O'GREEN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART The Coast Guard helps us out with that when we have to get into areas where it's tough to do a rescu... LT. DENNIS DINSMORE From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwa... JONATHAN EDWARDS My clients are trying to survive by doing the best that they can with what they have. We want to get... BRUCE SHOLES Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something ... JOY HARJO For our corporate clients, the assurance that we can get them the best possible deal outweighs the c... GAVIN STEVENS In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave... DAN SIMMONS When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have... JON MORRISON We have a partnership agreement and we have an agreement with the NBA that governs how we operate. T... BRUCE LEVENSON Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr... SUSAN RICE If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to gr... CORBIN BERNSEN We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether the... REID HOFFMAN It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a s... MINDY KALING Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being o... REGINA BRETT Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love.... JUDY COLLINS We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,... WILL SMITH This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutio... ADRIAN M. FENTY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 We can re... DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but... WATKIN TUDOR JONES It's been the same song, same verse all year long we don't hit the ball when we need too. We just di... FRANK CHUMBLEY We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those mom... ZECHARIAH BARRETT Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place... MICHAEL MORPURGO God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him ... IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to ... ANGELINA JOLIE We are committed to providing value to our clients by delivering effective solutions, superior servi... CURT HECKER When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 p... DON ANDERSON I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airp... HERB KELLEHER We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love. MEGAN MULLALLY If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa... IAN JACKSON In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it ha... ALEC BALDWIN When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily p... MOTHER ANGELICA As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understa... ROB BELL They set the tempo. We couldn't get into our transition and the key to us winning is being able to g... CALVIN RICE We extended the event into May this year so more schools could participate after the FCAT test time,... CARRIE HILL She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART What fun we had, how beautiful we were. E. LOCKHART I hope to talk with the road department next week, but with this last storm it is looking unlikely w... JARED SMITH Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's ... AGNES OBEL It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to... BINDI IRWIN We program our minds and then put ourselves into it. We get so accustomed to this program that separ... MAURICE SPEES Our guards did a good job of moving the ball up the floor in transition, and I just tried to focus o... BARBARA TURNER Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely hap... RANBIR KAPOOR It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small thin... MOTHER TERESA 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... 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
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it... PATRICK WHITESELL It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to st... PATRICK WHITESELL Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to ... PATRICK WHITESELL If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be ve... PATRICK WHITESELL There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that i... PATRICK WHITESELL We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to... PATRICK WHITESELL I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to cons... PATRICK WHITESELL I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underes... PATRICK WHITESELL TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs. 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SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ... 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The religion of Christ will give them one whic... PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves. PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ... PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow... PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among... PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it! PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. PATRICK HENRY There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ... PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i... PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America... PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner. 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PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th... PATRICK KAVANAGH In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ... PATRICK KAVANAGH Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag... PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor... PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur... PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie... PATRICK KAVANAGH The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being... 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PATRICK KAVANAGH Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ... PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you. PATRICK KANE If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed. PATRICK KANE I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get... PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l... PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ... PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ... PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p... PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience. PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. 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PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. PATRICK GEDDES I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul... PATRICK FUGIT Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d... PATRICK FUGIT There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am... PATRICK FUGIT If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz... PATRICK FUGIT It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K... PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B... PATRICK FUGIT I'm not a very fast-paced person. PATRICK FUGIT I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. PATRICK FUGIT I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple. PATRICK FISCHLER I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama. PATRICK FISCHLER 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th... PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me. PATRICK FISCHLER I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca... PATRICK FISCHLER I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It... PATRICK FISCHLER Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand... PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. PATRICK EWING I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ... PATRICK EWING This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c... PATRICK EWING Most of the fans will still be Knick fans. PATRICK EWING I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely o... PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. PATRICK EWING I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity... PATRICK EWING When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I... PATRICK EWING I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&... PATRICK EWING Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. 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I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite... PATRICK DUFFY Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr... PATRICK DUFFY It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ... PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ... PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc... PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. 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PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta... PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr... PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much. PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering... PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY