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Jonathan Sacks

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DEYTH BANGER Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not f...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not f...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
NUNO ROQUE I want to look into each one of those, and find out if there are other people whose names do not app...
JAMES DAROSS That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
TONY LA RUSSA Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll alw...
TONY LA RUSSA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly...
CHRISTINA ENGELA IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY The ODM is not based on political quicksand, but brings together people committed to certain ideals.
KALONZO MUSYOKA I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the tim...
BOB GOFF i envy you for who you are, but admire you because your who i want to become
RACHAEL VAUGHAN Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m...
RAINBOW ROWELL That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to k...
ROBERTSON DAVIES We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world w...
SAI BABA The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
SHANNON L. ALDER Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Ma...
CHRISTINE SEITZ Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMAN HESSE Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule...
RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ...
RACHEL JOYCE People are not used to me playing up there, but it's a position I play very well. It's going to give...
DALE ROBINSON We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD