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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...
RT. HON. SIR WILLIAM EDWARD GOSCHEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running...
JANET YELLEN Its first policy is to avoid interruptions to rail and air transportation.
JACK GALLAGHER

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the...
AUDREY TAUTOU

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest
GREGORY NUNN Everybody in Salisbury has been so nice. Some people have offered to take us out to dinner.
DEBBIE GARRIGUES Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow...
JAMES GANDOLFINI

Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
MARK TWAIN He's an incredibly gifted athlete who didn't really take a lot of major hits. I think he's got an in...
BRIAN WHITE

To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK

I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Certainly loss of innocent lives is something that anyone putting together an operation tries to avo...
CINDY MOORE

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE admiring of the diplomatic skills that President Bush has displayed throughout this incident. He was...
BOB GRAHAM

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
SARAH MACLEAN

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the even...
WINSTON CHURCHILL There may be a nationwide split on immigration policy, but Americans are nearly unanimous in their s...
MAURO E. MUJICA This is like putting lipstick on a pig. Anyway you dress it, it is bad policy.
JOY OLSON

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

We think it is important to increase international pressure on Iran to get them to rethink the polic...
JOHN BOLTON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innoce...
LORD SALISBURY If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocen...
LORD SALISBURY We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our duty as such.
LORD SALISBURY I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if ...
LORD SALISBURY Zeal for the greatness of England was the passion of his life.
LORD SALISBURY Horny-handed sons of toil.
LORD SALISBURY White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military...
JEFFREY SACHS

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear ...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON That casual kiss on my cheek would have meant nothing up until recently, I realized I was in love wi...
SUMMER MICHAELS Wir wollen ein Volk der guten Nachbarn sein und werden, im Innern und nach außen.“

...
WILLY BRANDT Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not diff...
PREM RAWAT A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN Americans expect that this country's newest residents will proudly wave our flag and make strides to...
MAURO E. MUJICA Life is a series of narrow escapes and random collisions.
BILL WELLS We do lose things occasionally on board the space station. There are a lot of places. There are litt...
KIRK SHIREMAN You want to avoid putting these teens together with other youths with oppositional defiant and condu...
MARK COURTNEY My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Life is a two way street - and sometimes there are collisions.
CHRISTINA ENGELA To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It's unfortunate but we do lose things occasionally on the space station. There are lots of nooks an...
KIRK SHIREMAN The best way to avoid a cesarean is to stay out of the hospital.
BROOKE SANDERS PURVES It hasn't been agreed to yet. We're still working on that. But the maintenance fees that we're going...
DAN RADAKOVICH Time is standing still downstream fishing for dinner!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS

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LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
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LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
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LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
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LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoid collisions.

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