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GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* the saddest fact of life is growing up
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* As we grow older time grows shorter, I think its because while we grow taller the months stay the sa...
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* I don't hate anybody...well except for one person but that person doesn't count because i refuse to ...
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* I don't like half smiles...they make me wonder where the other half is
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* I cant help it you see i have this habit of throwing smiles around and it makes me quite sad when pe...
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* The younger the generation, the dumber.
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* The secret to life is...a secret so i cant tell you
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* Dreams travel far, coming from wishes off stars.
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* When all's said and done tears and laughter are much the same thing. After all what difference is th...
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S. If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTON The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo...
C. S. LEWIS We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives a...
S. TRUETT CATHY If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of th...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. LEWIS The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife,...
T. S. KALYANARAMAN I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. TRUETT CATHY We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. TRUETT CATHY I cook chicken for a living.
S. TRUETT CATHY I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var...
S. TRUETT CATHY If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of...
S. TRUETT CATHY I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven...
S. TRUETT CATHY I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou...
S. TRUETT CATHY I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit...
S. TRUETT CATHY I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. TRUETT CATHY Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
S. TRUETT CATHY If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
S. TRUETT CATHY I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo...
S. TRUETT CATHY I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can...
S. TRUETT CATHY It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ...
S. TRUETT CATHY Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. TRUETT CATHY I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. TRUETT CATHY You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on...
S. TRUETT CATHY Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
S. TRUETT CATHY Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things...
S. TRUETT CATHY In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
S. TRUETT CATHY We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti...
S. TRUETT CATHY Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.
S. TRUETT CATHY I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. JOSHI You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. JOSHI My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. JOSHI I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ...
S. ROBSON WALTON I was small but slow as a college tackle.
S. ROBSON WALTON I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -...
S. ROBSON WALTON I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ...
S. ROBSON WALTON In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the w...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically e...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
S. J. PERELMAN In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the me...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only...
PEARL S. BUCK We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Let us have peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
ULYSSES S. GRANT My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
ULYSSES S. GRANT How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL