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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the s...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE

Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON

I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li...
BILL BAILEY

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE

The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he...
CASSANDRA CLARE I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable s...
FRANK P. LOUCHHEIM Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea...
STANLEY DONEN I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ...
NENE LEAKES I'm one of my sensations.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE I think it reflects that there is a commitment to online advertising, there is a recognition that is...
JEFF LANCTOT For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
STEWART STAFFORD Life is a magical game so play it with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be b...
DON LEMON Why things are not easy? * 'Cause life is not.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.
J.R. RIM Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitel...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing pas...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
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JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

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