I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

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KELLY JONES

It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
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JOHN HODGMAN

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

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Why live for the day, when you know the next one is going to be exactly the same.
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RUDOLPH DELSON

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I was driving down the street (in Harlingen) and saw a palm tree line with what stucco houses and re...
BOB HUDGINS It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great f...
FRANCIS WHEEN

Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthu...
HA-JOON CHANG

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER

We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about?
ALEX TURNER 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

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA

I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST

Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang...
JAMES CLAVELL

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD As I sit here on a snowy morning watching the flakes gently fall outside my window, I look at the 30...
KYTKA HILMAR-JEZEK What is the world without wit? We should live to love, love to laugh, and laugh to live!
P. A. MONSON

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different fr...
AL CAPP

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different f...
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RAFAEL YGLESIAS

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY We can roll up on what could be the most mundane situation and now we look at it and say, 'Could it ...
JIM BAIRD

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mi...
JIMI HENDRIX

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very n...
VINCENT STARRETT

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI This is a busy intersection, and it's right across the street from where I live.
MIKE HOLT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live wit...
BELSEBUUB

No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER

Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or dis...
LEO TOLSTOY

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at a...
WILLIAM HURT

...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG The expectation of a good harvest makes the farmer to plant his seed
SOTONYE ANGA It was raining the entire game, and you could barely see across the field due to the heavy fog.
ANTHONY DESJARDINS

I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C.

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE

These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e...
SIMONE ELKELES The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.
SHERALYN PRATT We'll live without advertising for awhile, and see what happens,
ELLEN WHEELER Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t...
NAZIM AMBALATH At drama school nobody cared what shape my nose was and if I felt down I could be someone else for t...
NIKKI SANDERSON

Look,” said Roark evenly, and pointed at the window. “Can you see the campus and the town? Do yo...
AYN RAND See, the world is narrowing. We each live in a bubble of attitude. Everything tailored for us. No ha...
MATTHEW BLAKSTAD

It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH

Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH

Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH

Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH

As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...
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JOHN LLOYD

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE

Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never kn...
EUGENE O'NEILL ...such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done.

An...
ELIZABETH KERNER I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
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

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpe...
NELLIE BLY

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked ...
LIN YUTANG

The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH

This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anyone deserves a chance to live, whoever and what they do. Without her or him existing, there will ...
MICKEY LUO

The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people....
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To begin at the beginning.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we we...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The pub...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he. “I am.” “I ought to make you si...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am inclined to think--” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I be...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is easy to be wise after the event.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in s...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indee...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

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