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At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.


Alice Oswald

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Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could wri...
TANA FRENCH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I&...
ELTON JOHN I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go...
VANESSA FERRARI You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the ...
ASHLEY BENSON People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred...
GABE NEWELL I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.
BERNARD HINAULT Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE I could spend a whole day at a spa. I'd get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grape...
DULE HILL The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going hom...
SLOANE CROSLEY Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself...
JOE MURRAY I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when y...
RORY MCILROY Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a ...
CARA CASTRONUOVA I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; R...
CHRISTINA RICCI Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn&#...
BRUCE COCKBURN I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was...
DAVE GROHL 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 I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and G...
NICK PARK It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS... When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t...
GARY F EVANS... Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c...
ABRAHAM PAIS I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing ...
RYNE SANDBERG Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master'...
JOSEPH KANON The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clu...
AMELIA WARNER I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th...
JOHN WATERS

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OSWALD CHAMBERS The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is secon...
OSWALD CHAMBERS ... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
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OSWALD CHAMBERS In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7

Beware of the pleasan...
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OSWALD CHAMBERS Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes
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DENIS OSWALD Every venue should be ready before the Games, leaving us enough time -- even if it's little time -- ...
DENIS OSWALD As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a proble...
DENIS OSWALD According to the world code, that laboratory should have ensured the anonymity of the samples used i...
DENIS OSWALD Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can...
DENIS OSWALD The situation in Greece was very specific, very political, which explained what happened. We tried t...
DENIS OSWALD I don't see any risk. There is too much at stake, the image of the country is at stake, and really I...
DENIS OSWALD It's boding well for the future.
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DICK OSWALD The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
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OSWALD MOSLEY When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose f...
OSWALD MOSLEY Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union o...
OSWALD MOSLEY God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.
OSWALD CHAMBERS This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...
OSWALD SPENGLER Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?
OSWALD C. HOFFMAN Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard wor...
OSWALD C. HOFFMAN They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In r...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers a...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories,
LEE HARVEY OSWALD Whenever you fall, pick up something
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD of sound mind, but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revo...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm...
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol int...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist soci...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH