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Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS
I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.
SIMONE BILES
There are no moral phenomena, only a moral interpretation of phenomena
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER
One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER
Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA
Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY
There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL
There is no such thing as a moral dress... It's people who are moral or immoral.
JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER
There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.
A.H. SEPTIMIUS
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE
We are very happy. Arum has none of the two boxers under contract and is neutral. There will be no p...
BERND BOENTE
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
BERKELEY BREATHED
There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love
ERICA JONG
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to i...
H. RIDER HAGGARD
There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
You cannot place limitations where there are no provisions.
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postula...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER
The claims are legal blanks -- no more than a lot of noise and smoke.
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL
There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.
L. RON HUBBARD
As of now, there are no problems that we can identify, but I really have no comment on that. I'm not...
KARL DEAN
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
JOSE RIZAL
There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need ...
JASZ GILL
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'...
RICHARD LINKLATER
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -Jean Giraudoux.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed...
BROTHER ANDREW
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
OSCAR WILDE
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
OSCAR WILDE
There are no areas where no NGOs are going but there are vast areas where very few NGOs are going.
ANJA BEER
There are no areas where no NGOs are going but there are vast areas where very few NGOs are going.
ANJA DE BEER
The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
EMILY GIFFIN
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
JESSICA LANGE
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
JOHN GUNTHER
Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.
LARRY KERSTEN
There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.
ROBIN HOBB
He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life t...
BRIAN MCMASTER
I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love...
KURT VONNEGUT
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
HENRI BENJAMIN REBECQUE
Where there are no swamps there are no frogs
GERMAN PROVERB
Love misadventure;If a lion tells you "he loves you",think thrice before you follow,but if it is a s...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...
JEFF COOPER
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Without consistency there is no moral strength.
OWEN
There are a few things money cannot but but there are a lot more things you should not be paying for...
IPE MATHEW
It's not real. I mean, there are no vampires, there are no witches. Well, there are Wiccans, but the...
AMBER BENSON
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.
NINA LACOUR
Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problem...
MOHNISH PABRAI
There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
We were playing a neutral game. There was no tournament atmosphere, no crowd. Franklin had a decent ...
BRIAN LANE
There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Thomas had no intent, nor did he harm anyone. He was wrong in departing from where he was, and he ac...
BILL SNYDER
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi...
HENRI NOUWEN
Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not ...
CHRISTINA WESTOVER
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
CARLOS SANTANA
There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. Th...
WARREN RILEY
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That...
OSCAR WILDE
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
There are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
There are no athiests in foxholes...there are no foxes either!
JOHN KOVACICH
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom o...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
When people say it's a Princeton offense, it's not. But there can be no denying there are Princeton ...
LEN ELMORE
I'm proud of the way we played, but there are no moral victories. We tried to sneak one out tonight,...
BRETT GOFF
There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their ...
NICHOLAS STOLLER
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is...
LYN YUTANG
There is a theoretical possibility, but there are no plans for this now.
ANDRE MANNING
With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
YISROEL MEIR HA-COHEN
There are no quick fixes and there are no short-term solutions,
LEE RAYMOND
There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.
ORRIN WOODWARD
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Where there are no men, be thou a man.
HILLEL DANZIGER
Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it...
BILL WOMACK
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight ind...
ANTHONY DOERR
There are many questions, but no answers.
DARRELL FRASER
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ...
OSCAR WILDE
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written....
OSCAR WILDE
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions
CHARLES P. STEINMETZ
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ
At this point there are no signs of possible terrorist actions, so we're on alert but there is absol...
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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL
The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON