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Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.


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CHARLES HENRY PARKHURST I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
JAMES JOYCE Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted...
STEVE MARABOLI From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwa...
JONATHAN EDWARDS They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words wh...
NEALE DONALD WALSCH The oldest, shortest words - "yes' and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
PYTHAGORAS Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, wh...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY To me "Dreams are not those which I get while sleeping, Dreams are those which don't let me sleep"
RAMIT SINGH BHOGAL The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us...
BIBLE This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mot...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Those were big. We scored some good points there -- not only wins, but pins, too, which really helps...
JIM HEINZLER Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead
BIBLE We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society f...
PAULO COELHO In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
ALEXIS CARREL There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pur...
UNKNOWN We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which w...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thoug...
PYTHAGORAS Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago. All of us may hold opinions which are objectionabl...
INAYAT BUNGLAWALA The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
MARTY RUBIN The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little fart...
E. M. FORSTER Those comparisons are so ludicrously flattering that they are difficult to object to.
JAMES HUNTER The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipat...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
SIR JOHN DENHAM The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
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NINON DE LENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE LENCLOS Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
NINON DE LENCLOS A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
NINON DE LENCLOS The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience
NINON DE LENCLOS The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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FRANK CRUZ Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.
CATHERINE BELL I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.
ANKITA SINGHAL We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which sp...
DONNA GODDARD The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with succe...
THOMAS S. MONSON I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...
E. M. FORSTER We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have bec...
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E. M. FORSTER The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
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V.S. NAIPAUL Each of us will be remembered, either by those close to us or by those who have benefited from the g...
DONALD PILLAI Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of He...
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NEAL A. MAXWELL All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
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AMY LOWELL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out
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DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
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BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
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LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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AGNES DE MILLE I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND