I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.


Robert Browning

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CHRIS TUCKER
When he shoots on me, I just try and bury him with my strength.
FRANK MOLINARO
I’d like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.
CORKY PALMER
I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voic...
K. D. LANG
Great souls know the strength of their spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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JIM TRACY
I just try to have a normal life.
ERIC HALLER
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would h...
MARIE CORELLI
I thought my focus was there but obviously that shows up in stuff like shooting around the basket. I...
HANNA ZAVECZ
TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in ou...
AL JARREAU
A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together ...
DONNA ALWARD
He's just a big, jolly Glen. I mean, whenever you're down or frustrated, you can count on him to be ...
TYRUS THOMAS
Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter ...
JAMES MASLOW
life is just a beautiful story that our souls play out
MONISH SHARMA
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
WILLIAM GURNALL
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
HERMANN GOERING
Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the ...
ERNST JUNGER
We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the ti...
PETER KREEFT
Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to ma...
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My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of differe...
BROCK LESNAR
I'm just going to keep on going out there and try to get ahead in the count and get guys out quickly...
KIP WELLS
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and co...
DEAN KAMEN
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for...
MONICA LEWINSKY
I don't know of any coach that doesn't try to go inside first. We've got guys we can always count on...
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The only thing in life that I can count on to be infinitely challenging are human beings.
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HANNS JOHST
I'll try anything, ... I'm always looking for a challenge. I don't just carry it on the field, I car...
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God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own,...
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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuf...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cra...
JOHN ALTENBURGH
These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE
I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT
I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love ...
RENéE AHDIEH
Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA
I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the Lond...
VIJENDER SINGH
I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to cre...
JOHNNY ALMARAZ
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was...
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You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try ...
KATE BOSWORTH
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrum...
STEVEN ADLER
It gives me more strength and more speed. I'm pretty much a power runner. I don't have a whole lot o...
JEFF DONALDSON
I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
DYAN CANNON
Those who dare try are heroic souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due...
HARRY MELLING
I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me.
BEN ROETHLISBERGER
I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me.
BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER
I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat ...
ALEX KARPOVSKY
I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it...
STEVE JOBS
Sometimes, I think it's really hard to notice her stuff, which I think is really a tribute to the st...
EIK KAHNG
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
JOEL OSTEEN
I am thankful to all the souls, I meet in the journey of life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving act...
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These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA
I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
I don't think (the lineup) is as powerful as last year, so (I'm) just going to have to pitch them a ...
BRANDON BACKE
I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
I really like the fact that I can have a life for myself and have enough time to have a great time w...
DAWN LANDAU
I had my good stuff. I just kept the ball down and felt good out there. Everything was fluid. I was ...
CHAD BURNS
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't sto...
EVITA PERON
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't sto...
EVITA PERóN
(People) just have too much stuff. It was amazing to see people's belongings sitting on the street ....
CROSBY DAVIDSON
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two s...
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
There are two births: the one when lightFirst strikes the new awakened sense;The other when two soul...
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets G...
TIFFANY WINFREE
I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE
The rules try to create a neutral site with the focus on the student athletes, and not on the stuff ...
CHRIS SEMRAU
You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I ...
KATE BOSWORTH
No, none of that stuff, though I'd like to try it sometime. Just old-school working out,
LINDSAY LOHAN
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Going to see those cancer patients, that's a real humbling experience and it's taken a toll on me th...
ANDRE HALL
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
MIKE TYSON
I wanted to focus on weights and put weight on. I needed to keep my strength. I didn't just eat pizz...
JASON ELLISON
Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If ...
PADMA LAKSHMI
I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking ...
BARRY LEVINSON
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
It helps me with my math. You count by twos and stuff.
HEATHER DAVIS
Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever...
JIMMY CARTER
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ...
WILLEM DAFOE
I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
BEN ELLIOT
I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff.
ANDY KINDLER
Women already come equipped with a core of steel fiber strength, depths of resolve a man cannot comp...
JAMES R. TUCK
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the theme...
BO BURNHAM
I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
JOHN HAWKES
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
DONNA RICE
I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
DAVE MASON
I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't...
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my l...
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
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Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
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It's a long time between drinks.
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Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, / And blew.
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ROBERT BROWNING
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are
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I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gr...
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Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops
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Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,/ The not-incurious in God's handiwork.
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With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's bus...
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It was roses, roses, all the way, / With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth
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All service ranks the same with God: With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no la...
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God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod
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All's over, then; does truth sound bitter / As one at first believes? / Hark, 'tis the sparrows' goo...
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I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tourn...
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Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
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Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
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All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
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How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
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I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
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Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
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Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
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And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
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Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
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Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
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The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
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Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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