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LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who recei...
MARTIN LUTHER They impact the way young people dress and act more than anyone else, so I think they should be held...
BOBBY WRIGHT A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
KAREN ARMSTRONG No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are...
ALEXANDER POPE Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, whic...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Her silence should be feared more than her words.
PIPER PAYNE Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.
SANJO JENDAYI “A man should be rich in thoughts, let his words amaze the world.” – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ Respect for someone should not be in your words rather it should be in your act
POOJA GUNSHEKHAR GOUNDER Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thought...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives a...
S. TRUETT CATHY One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for l...
STEPHEN KING Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. ...
OG MANDINO It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that...
THOMAS JEFFERSON People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to...
ANTHONY LICCIONE When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world m...
TERRY PRATCHETT We live in a world that values words over thoughts. This is precisely why people talk all the time a...
C. JOYBELL C. Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your m...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose ...
WILLIAM H. HUNT Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
MEHMET OZ Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is si...
ANONYMOUS There are two main functions of "words" expressing your thoughts and hiding your thoughts.
LALIT BHOJWANI As are your thoughts so will be your actions. One should therefore refrain from listening to anythin...
SAM VEDA Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT If you have no money in your pocket, then you should have fair words on your lips.
VIKRANT PARSAI A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (My priorities are) family, Lord, profession, ... And that's not the order it should be, but I think...
JOHN WOODEN Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts co...
AMITABH BACHCHAN You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship an...
TAYLOR BRANCH Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.
STEVE MARABOLI The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person ...
HILDA SOLIS No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what ...
CRIMETHINC. Which Lord do you worship? The lord of the money tree or the Lord that was nailed to a tree? The gos...
NORM TOMLINSON There are so many things involved in getting ready for prom. From the color of your dress, to the ac...
KARISSA MURPHY If you're not a gambler and are truly risk-averse, the speculative portion of your personal investme...
ANDREW CLARK Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
BERNARD M. BARUCH Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends wh...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
BERNARD BARUCH Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Christ should be the master and lord of every country
SUNDAY ADELAJA All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasi...
CHANAKYA Be kind with your thoughts, caring with your words, and gentle in your actions.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
JEAN ROSTAND Your eyes should not seek evil sights; your ears should not seek evil tales; your tongue should not ...
ATHARVA VEDA No one can hurt you more than your own negative thoughts.
SATYA KALRA There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful...
FRANCOIS FENELON When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contente...
KATHLEEN NORRIS When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented ...
KATHLEEN NORRIS There are people who should be caught who aren't caught and words that should be said that aren't sa...
WU HEPING It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your Actions are harder than Your Words,So you need more actions and less words in order to excel in...
PAUL E. EHIMEN It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no s...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children ...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest ...
JIM CRACE Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing!
SUJISH KANDAMPULLY I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters...
DONALD E. WESTLAKE Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they shoul...
ANTHONY BURGESS It's never killed a single person in the history of mankind and there's no reason it should be illeg...
CHRISTOPHER SEEKINS Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to v...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Get creative. Rejoice in the "no". Have a "no"-fest. Your metacommunication should be validating but...
RICHARD GRANNON In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Veneti...
OSCAR WILDE In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
MARGARET ATWOOD I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, yo...
DAVID LEVITHAN Failure is nothing more than limits established in our mind, purely conceived from negative thoughts...
RICK PRICE Train journeys are more comfortable than road journeys and I think it should be more affordable.
LALITHA SHANMUGASUNDARAM It's really no different than selling insurance. If anybody should be in the business of selling put...
BOB GORDON It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view,...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Follow your purpose.Never allow yourself to be victim of overconfidence or preconceived detrimental ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA more than it should be.
HARRY PALMER The ethical person should do more than he is required to do and less than he is allowed to do.
MICHAEL JOSEPHSON You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you ...
DOUG TUMEN A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and mu...
LUCY STONE Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
JOHN DONNE This is not looking at management strategies. In other words, these (meetings) are more conceptually...
JULIE REGAN Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actio...
DENIS WAITLEY Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, ...
ALEXANDER POPE Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If a bad person was the only one that supported you in your days of tribulation,then that bad person...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
ROBERT COPELAND There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more...
ALBERT EINSTEIN There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thi...
BIBLE No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods ...
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LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
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