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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.
Joey Comeau

Fame doesn't change anyone, it just finds idiots; if you are a anonymous idiot, only your family know it; but if you are famous, all people will know that you are idiot.
Patricia Conde Galindo

Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.
Jeffrey Cohen

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
William Clark

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.
William Clark

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
Paul Claudel

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjld

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjld

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjld

Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
Garrett James Hardin

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.
Roberto Clemente Walker

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward ... Let us have no fear of the future.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Race aint nothing but a number.
Carson Cistulli

For those of us who believe in the value of every human life, there isnt any more inspiring work under way in the world today.
Bill Gates

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien

Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov

Words are but empty thanks.
Colley Cibber

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
Madonna Louise Ciccone

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
Emil Cioran

Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy

Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
Sri Chinmoy

He (Martin Luther King) was very pure in mind and heart. He was a lover: a lover not only of his race but a lover of all mankind. His heart was so broad, so great, so magnanimous, and this gave him a most sincere feeling of absolute oneness with everyone. This is what made him so divinely great.
Sri Chinmoy

When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.
Sri Chinmoy

The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Marguerite Blessington

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
James Burgh

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosophers stone.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Dalai Lama

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
C. J. Cherryh

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
Lois McMaster Bujold

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Sir Thomas Browne

Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.
Thomas Brooks

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
James Burgh

In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.
Tamil proverb

Each day is a loan, spend it wisely.
Unknown

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke

Some hae meat and cann eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns

Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means pretending to be a lion.It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
Anthony Burgess

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense he is always satisfied with himself.
Napolon Bonaparte

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William Seward Burroughs

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William Seward Burroughs

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

Is not man born with a love of change an Englishman to be discontented an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
Sir Richard Francis Burton

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
Sir Richard Francis Burton

There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Jeb's my little brother, he's done what I've told him to all his life.
John Ellis Bush

Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance you know, football stars and theatre stars It is man-made so the press can feed off it.
Kate Bush

Like it or not, we were built tough, Because we're woman.
Kate Bush

You might not, not think so now, But just you wait and see someone will come to help you.
Kate Bush

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
Kate Bush

If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.
George Walker Bush

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.
George Walker Bush

Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
George Walker Bush

I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George Walker Bush

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
George Walker Bush

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.
George Walker Bush

I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.
George Walker Bush

A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.
George Walker Bush

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