Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned.
William Carlos Williams
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks. Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood b... SIMONE ELKELES To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT 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 Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN A wise person truly said, "It ought to be as impossible to forget that there is a Christian in the h... ROGER J. SQUIRE How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... GERMANY KENT They were offered $500 to complete the assignment and $50 for each student they administered it to. ... DOUG BRANDY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each ... MARY CAROLINE DAVIES His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. DANA PLATO If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose... BRYANT MCGILL Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are... THOMAS S. MONSON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ... ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ... L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not... ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it. SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me. NINA LACOUR Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ... JOSEPH SMITH JR. Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ... DEBASISH MRIDHA The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for '... AMIRI BARAKA How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleas... PLATO There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA Never forget to be yourself, and never forget the purpose of your life. DEBASISH MRIDHA Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN
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CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ... CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who... CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000... CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo... CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and... CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what... CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac... CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif... CARLOS CASTANEDA Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there! CARLOS CASTANEDA The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. CARLOS CASTANEDA A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau... CARLOS CASTANEDA We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe... CARLOS CASTANEDA The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica... CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. CARLOS CASTANEDA Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat... CARLOS CASTANEDA In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba... CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989. CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b... CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. CARLOS ALAZRAQUI