A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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ANUJ SOMANY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an...
ANGELA CARTER I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Marlena's body was found on November 19, and so I consider that the anniversary of her death, though...
JULIE BUNTIN We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should ...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...
JAMES A. GARFIELD All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I am a poor hater.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
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JAMES A. GARFIELD The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Suicide is not a remedy.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas control the world.
JAMES A. GARFIELD If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no rem...
JAMES A. GARFIELD It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
JAMES GARFIELD Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to ...
JAMES GARFIELD A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES GARFIELD Ideas control the world.
JAMES GARFIELD Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
JAMES GARFIELD Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that b...
JAMES GARFIELD I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
JAMES GARFIELD Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doc...
JAMES GARFIELD History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
JAMES GARFIELD The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convict...
JAMES GARFIELD I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. G...
JAMES GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
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JAMES GARFIELD Action expresses priorities.
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CHARLES A. GARFIELD Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
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CHARLES A. GARFIELD It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a for...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD Tortured for the Republic.
[Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]
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ANDREW GARFIELD I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
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GARFIELD BLAIR You could feel it slipping away. I really thought we could have come back had we adjusted to their 3...
GARFIELD BLAIR It was a winnable game. But we knew if we made the same mistakes we made in the first half and didn'...
GARFIELD BLAIR I?m excited. I can?t wait to play the basketball game. We know at this time of year, it?s one and do...
GARFIELD YUILLE (Myrick) is something else and he?s been doing that all year.
GARFIELD YUILLE If we play our game, we should be OK.
GARFIELD YUILLE I think our conditioning played a big part today. We knew if we kept the pace up, we would wear them...
GARFIELD YUILLE We just have to keep our focus and stay disciplined. We were disciplined last season, but not as dis...
GARFIELD YUILLE We got the whole team involved today. That?s what we wanted. This is the kind of game we wanted. We ...
GARFIELD YUILLE They're young. They're willing to learn which I love the best, and they get better everyday.
GARFIELD WHITE Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.
GARFIELD WHITE So again another young guy stepping forward.
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GARFIELD WHITE Every year we seem to be getting better at it. It's fun and it's gratifying when you watch the kids ...
GARFIELD WHITE We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.
GARFIELD EWINGS It's always tough down there so we need to get among them.
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GARFIELD EWINGS Things are just not going our way.
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JAMES A. FORBES The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
A. JAMES CLARK We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep...
A. JAMES CLARK I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and sho...
A. JAMES CLARK My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of...
A. JAMES CLARK My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. JAMES CLARK It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
A. JAMES CLARK The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work...
A. JAMES CLARK When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
A. JAMES CLARK I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. JAMES CLARK There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bomb...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
JAMES A. WORSHAM I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
JAMES A. MICHENER Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb...
JAMES A. MICHENER «И из нее сделали пример, на который мужчины будут ссыл...
JAMES A. MICHENER Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
JAMES A. MICHENER Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e...
JAMES A. MURPHY Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just...
JAMES A. MURPHY The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
JAMES A. FROUDE Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES A. FROUDE Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
JAMES A. MICHENER As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES A. FROUDE Human improvement is from within outward.
JAMES A. FROUDE An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
JAMES A. MICHENER The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
JAMES A. FROUDE I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES A. FROUDE The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw...
JAMES A. FROUDE In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES A. FROUDE The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES A. FROUDE We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
JAMES A. FROUDE If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...
JAMES A. FROUDE A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
JAMES A. MICHENER I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
JAMES A. MICHENER Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES A. FROUDE History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter...
JAMES A. FORUDE Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice c...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
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JAMES A. LEACH Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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JAMES A. BALDWIN Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than tha...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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JAMES A. BALDWIN No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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JAMES A. BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immu...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU