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Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
JANE SMILEY
There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them.
ANGELA KISS
It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU
I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE
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APURVA GAGLANI
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NICKOLE SANDERS
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
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ALBERT CAMUS
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER
Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty
GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG
Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together...
VERA NAZARIAN
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE
The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent.
TOBA BETA
Some days simply lay on you like stones.
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She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-fo...
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Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally ...
PAUL BOWLES
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
HERGé
This way at least everybody can get it,
DAVID BODANIS
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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~DOCTOR WHO
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
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Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
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GARY F EVANS...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN
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SARAH DESSEN
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
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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
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KELLY JONES
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT
This time he could no longer hold back his tears. And with them came words that he’d never been ab...
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL
There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left ...
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SARAH NOFFKE
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
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“What’s a name?” Loki grinned. “Wear it lik...
JOANNE HARRIS
Some take hardships as the end of the world, i see it as another opportunity to overcome.
AMIR RIVEROLL
What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
RICK YANCEY
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CHINA MIéVILLE
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER
The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC
No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C.
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
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ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE
I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID
I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID
I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting f...
LARRY DAVID
I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
LARRY DAVID
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
LARRY DAVID
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
DAVID PERLMUTTER
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of pre...
DAVID AGUS
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
DAVID RUDISHA
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the po...
DAVID BLUNKETT
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
DAVID NOVAK
I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movemb...
DAVID SAX