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Related Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of o... RALPH W. SOCKMAN I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one t... RACHEL ROY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It is far too premature for us to even think about that. Charlie and Elizabeth will continue to anch... JEFFREY SCHNEIDER Now that we know the orbits of all the stars, we can see that many nearby stars come from far away a... JOHANNES ANDERSEN Do not let the opinions of others consume you.When we choose to let the opinions of others matter to... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Normal statistics are like photographs. They can tell us only that X percentage have a problem. They... BRUCE HEADEY Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much... CRISS JAMI There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we pe... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm one of the main guys to come across the middle, because I'm one of the bigger receivers. Now tha... JACK MORRIS I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do t... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN You can't come into a game unemotional and I think we did that. That shows some growth because some ... CRAIG YENZER Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C. S. LEWIS This life is too short for us to worry, when we can be happy. TOMMY POLO Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. STUDS TERKEL We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see. LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of o... HENRY CLOUD We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... becau... BENNET OMALU Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady ... BILLY GRAHAM There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live th... GRETCHEN CARLSON It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and ... TEMITAYO A Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short.... BEBE REXHA Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a frac... ANTHONY RYAN Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote mys... VACLAV HAVEL In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are ext... ERALDO BANOVAC Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa... BRANDON SANDERSON I think we were playing a little too relaxed ... that was kind of a wake-up call for us letting us k... APRIL MCCLENDON Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moo... COOLIO I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great li... TONY ABBOTT We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our... DAVID GAYSON Many of us suffer because we think that if people don’t really love us, then we will have to live ... STORMIE OMARTIAN Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some ... JOHN BYTHEWAY We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi... JUVENAL There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most impor... SARAH PARCAK I'm very confident that it's going to happen because we are too many. The USA needs us. CAMILO ONTIVEROS His understanding has long been that we could not hold all the land, even if we won the war on terro... DAN MERIDOR We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, libraria... TERRY ABBOTT There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have... BAT MASTERSON It tells us that the orbit [for the cluster] we had before was simply wrong. GUIDO DE MARCHI How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because f... JENNIFER DELUCY We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for... JOHN OWEN Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of al... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that... SHEENA IYENGAR Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat... ALAIN DE BOTTON Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold. W.B. YEATS Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ... J.D. VANCE Mistakes happen and life is full of twists and turns, but you mustn’t let any set backs hold you b... EMILY WILLIAMS It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn,... KATHERINE MIN There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have... FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we ar... JEANNETTE WALLS Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. LES BROWN It's definitely a motivation for all of us, but what I really need is that ring. I want to put that ... NATE WASHINGTON I've been through hundreds of people working for us because I fancy them all - there is something wr... HUGH GRANT Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get ... DAN PINK Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is�... BHASKARYYA DEKA Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life ... CAMPBELL SCOTT The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ... SAMUEL BUTLER As women of the western world, we see our sisters in other lands being raped, maimed and even execut... PATRICIA V. DAVIS All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, nece... DEB CALETTI Everything is going to change for the Shadowhunters, Simon thought. For all of us. It has to. CASSANDRA CLARE Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 14-17] For the Spirit we have received is th... C. HAROLD DODD As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so too, we are connected by: the air that w... RAYMOND BERESFORD HAMILTON Too many of us speak twice before we think SOURCE UNKNOWN Most of the guys are happy that we won and are 2-for-2 against Lockport, but some of us aren't showi... CEDRIC REDMOND Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there ... DENNIS MERRITT JONES There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel t... KURT COBAIN Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth'... GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to expr... BENJAMIN WATSON How often do people start down a path and then give up on it entirely? How many treadmills, exercise... ANGELA DUCKWORTH How often do people start down a path and then give up on it entirely? How many treadmills, exercise... ANGELA DUCKWORTH There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think ... CHRISTOPHER LEE The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that yo... ABIGAIL DISNEY When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I... KAZUO ISHIGURO Life is too short to be small. BENJAMIN DISRAELI Life is too short to be small. TIMOTHY FERRISS Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for ou... RICHARD DAWKINS Well we writers have defined life
in many ways to our meaningful perceptions
towards of how we or th... HLONIM The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most of us, but it is for some of us, ... JIM TREFETHEN We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our sp... TARUN BETALA He's far beyond a lot of us in maturity, and I think that's because of what he's been through. GARY MERRELL They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer... WILLIAM HAZLITT Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he ... BRAD PITT It's simply that there was too much of a gain in too short a period of time. Investors are looking f... YOSHIHISA OKAMOTO So my mind keeps coming back to the question: what is wrong with us? What is really preventing us fr... NAOMI KLEIN Life is short but it need us through a long way. HANNANI HUSNA MARZUKI God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not,... SOURCE UNKNOWN The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more ... KATHY ANDERSON Many people inside the church think God cares only that we obey. In fact, many believe that it is ev... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mother... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L... JOHN PIPER In life no amount of money is too big & no amount is too small,but thinking makes them what they cur... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and ... TIM KREIDER
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I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ... JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast. JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th... JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin... JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j... JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall... JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat... JULIAN SCHNABEL I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going... JULIAN BOND I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord. JULIAN OVENDEN It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done. JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ... JULIAN BAGGINI Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. JULIAN ASSANGE It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o... JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,... JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A... JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr... JULIAN SANDS 'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly. JULIAN OVENDEN I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k... JULIAN SCHNABEL I would have nailed Bond. JULIAN MCMAHON Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the mor... JULIAN MCMAHON You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene, JULIAN MCMAHON Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are. JULIAN MCMAHON By the time Van died everyone involved in the case knew the prison workers had only been kindly to h... JULIAN MCMAHON Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in qu... JULIAN BAGGINI When we started, we didn't even have a script. We felt we could create the story together with the c... JULIAN CROUCH