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Before praising a person for his rags to rich story, it is always more important to know HOW than to...
ANUJ SOMANY
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I was the epitome of rags to riches.
JASON MITCHELL
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirt...
CASEY STENGEL
People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kint...
MACKENZI LEE
You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholder...
MARK TWAIN
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS
I have gained wisdom from leaning into my pain, in not allowing the hounds of hell to snap at my hee...
STEVE AUSTIN
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fa...
BIBLE
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded m...
CAROLYN WELLS
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity and from depre...
BRIAN TRACY
A lady called me the other day and said she was able to save $15 on her mother's prescription. She t...
JEAN RAGS
I think it's going pretty well.
JEAN RAGS
But change is hard. This is a big change for Hernando County. Year after year, it's grown and divers...
JEAN RAGS
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch ov...
MARK TWAIN
No sneakers, no hats, no do-rags, no jeans.
MATT BONNER
As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then...
SOLA KOSOKO
Find recovery love recovery be recovery
PAUL OGLE
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were neve...
DIANA ROSS
Its front porch had a beautiful view of the water and invisible screening to keep the jellybugs and ...
JULIAN MAY
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.
BIBLE
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
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that hu...
ERIC SCHAEFFER
Take to your heels anytime you see a human they call perfect,for he is only being perfect with his i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We see a recovery in Europe, not very acute but a recovery, and we see a more broad-based recovery i...
RODRIGO RATO
There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and ...
ROBERT REICH
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE
Recovery started from that point.
JOSH ABBOTT
(a quote from a survivor)
Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to p...
SHAHIDA ARABI
Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to ...
JAMES STEEL
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty
GEORGE FARQUHAR
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
He was too proud. He'd rather his kids wore rags than take charity.
KAREN AGHELESCU
In many diseases the emotional component ? the determination to fight and pursue recovery ? is part ...
DR. PIERRE FAYAD
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables w...
KATHY RICHARDSON
A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.
C. JOYBELL C.
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
JOHN MAJOR
You can recovery from any injury.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
JAMIE WYETH
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery ...
CRAIG BROWN
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN
The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned i...
DEBORAH KERR
The idea is to move people from devastation to renewal to recovery.
JEFF HOWARD
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
MARK AKENSIDE
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, whe...
HERMAN MELVILLE
God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but some...
CARRIE NEWCOMER
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...
CELIA REES
One of the challenges we'll have is balancing response and recovery. I've always seen us as a recove...
JULIE MARTINEAU
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall co...
BIBLE
A typical post-war employment recovery would be more vigorous than what we're seeing now. We think t...
GLENN HUBBARD
We are a long way from a self-sustaining recovery,
ANDREAS REES
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, ...
THOMAS HOOD
Small business will lead our recovery, but without access to capital, there is no recovery.
THOMAS J. POWELL
If drugs and alcohol is causing someone you love so much pain, step up and get help - change their l...
BEST HEALTH RECOVERY
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
JOHN DONNE
Merger deal flow is going to reflect an economic recovery and stock market recovery. They go hand in...
JOHN ORRICO
We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough,...
ROBIN BERTRAM
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to v...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than y...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychot...
HANS EYSENCK
It hasn't been a full recovery but it's been a good recovery in small value.
BILL LIPPMAN
shift gears, moving from its current stance, geared to stimulating a recovery, to a more neutral sta...
ANTHONY SANTOMERO
These jobless claims figures strongly suggest that any discussion of a runaway economic recovery hav...
ANTHONY CHAN
These jobless claims figures strongly suggest that any discussion of a runaway economic recovery hav...
ANTHONY CHAN
I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you a...
KANGANA RANAUT
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX
I think we have a recovery under way, ... At this stage of the recovery, the data are often mixed.
CHARLES LIEBERMAN
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and th...
ANNIE LENNOX
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my o...
BETTY FORD
From the governors to state legislators to mayors and city council members, every individual politic...
FRANK FAHRENKOPF
Consumers are still the weakest element within the recovery. European companies are still reluctant ...
DOMINIC WHITE
Recovery.
KATE MOSS
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
KURT VONNEGUT
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
ANNE LAMOTT
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
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's becau...
PATRICIA BUCKLEY
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
G. K. CHESTERTON
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying...
THOMAS HOOD
These numbers reflect a slow, but steady recovery from the tragic events of 9/11.
ED HALL
In general, it points to a broad recovery.
ERIC GOMBERG
I told him to lay still, we'll get some towels, we'll get some cold rags to cool him off and wait fo...
JAMIE SUMMERS
That is about average for a recovery. It's above the recovery we saw in the early '90s, but signific...
GREGORY MANKIW
Try to come to a place where you accept your own imperfections. Where it‟s okay to be less than pe...
DANU MORRIGAN
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.
DOUG LEGGATE
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
We are now in stage two of the recovery, The second phase of the recovery very much hinges on the ab...
PATRIZIO MERCIAI
Clearly, people are anticipating recovery. There's pretty consistent selling from a variety of accou...
BRAD STONE
They are in a process of recovery.
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Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
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If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one mi...
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To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to who...
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Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as...
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Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovere...
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God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasu...
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The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the peopl...
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Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his founda...
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Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
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Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, h...
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Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more in...
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To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
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Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again...
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To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get...
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Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.
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Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart 'til it rea...
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Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
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To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
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God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
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God tests, but he does not tempt.
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Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
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If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
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I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territori...
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At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'l...
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There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough ...
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The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the car...
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
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It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salari...
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
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Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
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It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
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Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
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Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love tha...
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To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe...
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With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish y...
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If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
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One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one bu...
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Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
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I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
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The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity...
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Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
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Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer s...
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Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
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To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be n...
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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
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Have nuts and be nuts.
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Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
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To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
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If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and...
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The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com...
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As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositi...
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My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common unde...
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