Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Henry Miller
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HENRY MILLER Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
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JOHN VINCENT ABRAHAM Life in abundance comes only through great love.
ELBERT HUBBARD You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you...
LYDIA LUNCH Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness...
MANGO WODZAK Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direc...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically ...
VICTORIA CLARK Life can be seen through your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea...
MARY XAVIER Be honest and true, boys!
Whatever you do, boys,
Let this be your motto through life.
GEORGE BIRDSEYE Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it for Life comes to you only once . . . never to return!...
RVM Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history r...
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you exp...
WAYNE COYNE Initial contact has been made early on and there is progress through other channels.
JOSEPH PRICE If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
MAYOR AMABILE Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through di...
OSCAR WILDE There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows...
BERNARD MALAMUD There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows-...
BERNARD MALAMUD Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through d...
OSCAR WILDE There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the...
FREDERICK BARTHELME Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
HENRY MILLER Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed
HENRY MILLER Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.
JOHN MARSTON One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
HELEN FIELDING His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
TERRY PRATCHETT There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness th...
JACK LONDON Don't be afraid to kick up a little dust in life; be you through and through.
SCOTTIE SOMERS He comes through in the clutch.
DAN CASEY I am the way the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me
ANONYMOUS There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters
CLAUDE CLEGG There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but thro...
TUPAC SHAKUR theres gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but throug...
TUPAC SHAKUR 'T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.
ANDRE COHEN Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
JOHN ELDREDGE They undoubtedly come through Syria and they come through Iran, probably, and through other countrie...
DONALD RUMSFELD There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through ...
J. M. COETZEE There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or win...
BERNARD MALAMUD ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
WILKIE COLLINS A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.
SETH ADAM SMITH I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the...
PATRICK DEWITT A success is worth making one smile which comes through hard work & sacrifice of comfort.Smile which...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We all have are own storms that we consistently battle as the days of life progress forward, but whi...
R.L. MITCHELL I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through...
BAI LING But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction.
JAMES STILL If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD There can never be progress in life without value for time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But ...
DAME ALICE MARKOVA Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system. But maybe there are pulses...
CHARLES WICKS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug...
THE WONDER YEARS Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol...
A. J. LIEBLING There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a be...
LAURENCE J. PETER True education is gained through the discipline of life. There
HENRY FORD Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving t...
DALAI LAMA XIV The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not throu...
THOMAS SZASZ I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all s...
EUDORA WELTY But it comes off as innocence, which carries through the picture.
BOB NEWHART More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever...
RAMAKRISHNA They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerfu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memo...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Life can be seen your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
MARY XAVIER In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love...
AARON COHEN Life was not intended to be easy, it's hard, uncomfortable and tragic at times, but you get through ...
LAUREN VALENCIA I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly throu...
EMILY BRONTë Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.
CAMERON CROWE Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity thr...
THOMAS SOWELL Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes ...
IAIN PEARS I am but a message in a world full of messengers
NICHOLAS JOHNSON There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, bu...
GERALD R. FORD Whatever gets you through the night
JOHN LENNON Wisdom comes through many shared moments of joy.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astr...
BILL KREUTZMANN There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),
CHRISTINE LAGARDE Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manh...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Whenever I speak in English the words comes through my mind and contains logic but whenever I speak ...
OJAS VISHWAKARMA To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears ...
AMISH TRIPATHI All glory comes from daring to begin.
EUGENE F. WARE All glory comes from daring to begin.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it - as the sa...
ALBERT BARNES There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they’d shared on the train.
MARISSA MEYER We are going through maybe not in the Arsenal way - but we are through.
THIERRY HENRY Don't go through life, grow through life.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER