I don't pay much attention to politics."
"You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I don’t pay attention to politics.” “You should. It’s barely less important than your own he...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
MARGARET CHO What catches your attention can change day to day.
But what catches your attention day after d...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN dont let anyone break your heart i say you should break there heart before they break yours
DALLY SALAD The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the p...
LARRY BRILLIANT For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT If you don't pay attention, you do so at your own peril.
JAMES WAGNER If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation
RENAE A. SAUTER If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention t...
ELIZABETH GILLIES Don't pay attention to people
Who tell you can't do it at lenght.
Trusting your own inst...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES You take it, you understand it, you learn from it and you pay attention to your own show.
JUDY MENDENHALL Don’t beg for attention; pay attention to your dreams and others will pay attention to you.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.
PAULO COELHO Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian."
"So I should burn everything...
HEATHER JAMES In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
MARILYN MONROE The more you pay attention to today, the less you worry about tomorrow.
SUPERNA BATHEJA Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living...
ALEX SAITTA Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own bea...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that...
RUSTY BLACKWOOD Black Girls… Stop settling for less than what you deserve. That’s why I stress self-love! There ...
STEPHANIE LAHART You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much m...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Have either of you seen your mother ”
“Yeah ” Ethan said and my heart actually skipped a...
RACHEL VINCENT Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay att...
HARVEY MILK Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, 'I'm here, pay att...
HARVEY MILK Just because someone looks safe, doesn't always mean they are. Always be aware of your surroundings,...
BARRY TATE I think it really indicates how important it is that people pay attention to the lifeboat drill. Thi...
HOWARD MOSES Don't focus on the words i write,
pay attention to the ones i don't.
These lines won't tel...
ANJUM CHOUDHARY Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you ...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA I don't pay much attention to it.
EUGENE PROFIT Much sweat, much pay - Less sweat, less pay.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is ple...
BIBLE We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid...
TOBA BETA A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The power never to get used to your pay check is by learning to programme your mind that you are ear...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfr...
PAT BARKER At least you pay for them.”
“I could support a foundling hospital, and you would appl...
ELOISA JAMES Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER The whole concept is that you should pay your percentage of fault. No more, no less.
WILLIAM LARGE Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Don’t
be caught up in yo...
ALLAN RUFUS The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to p...
MEGHAN DAUM Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay att...
MOLLY IVINS There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
"Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your h...
VERONICA ROTH Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON How in the hell could you have given me your heart?" I wondered aloud.
"Because you're th...
CAMBRIA HEBERT You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it ANI DIFRANCO Internet World is finally coming into its own as a show that the corporate audience needs to pay att...
DAVID STROM You want a fact???
...
I'm bad at math but good at chess, I beat the best guy on chess... ...
DEYTH BANGER You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Bree...
BRANDON SANDERSON Dont keep your heart safe.. be vulnerable
JOHN MAYER When I walked into your room and sat down beside you on the bed, I felt it.
I felt you give...
COLLEEN HOOVER You're beautiful
It's true
I saw your face
In a crowded place
and I dont know what ...
JAMES BLUNT When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE You want to beat them when they're around, but at the same time, you feel like you should also be ra...
COURTNEY ZABLOCKI If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others.
I...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
ERIN MORGENSTERN The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Being attorneys and coming from a professional lifestyle, we understand how important it is to pay a...
BREE KURIHARI You should also pay attention to what happens to you and make sure you draw correct conclusions
SUNDAY ADELAJA Struggle for Your Goals,
because its too much better than Struggling for Your Life.
FAHAD RASHIQ Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Yo...
KAREN HACKEL As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Other people's creativity should be like a dash of cologne, it should get your attention, but not co...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Pay less attention to what you HEAR about someone, and more to what you LEARN about them...as you ma...
OG MANDINO Your call has a
time frame,a price to pay,urgency of attention.
Your call has a purpose, a...
IKECHUKWU JOSEPH its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
JOHN GREEN Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit b...
DESMOND TUTU Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when...
PHILIP G. HAMERTON Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when...
PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we shoul...
JEAN SIBELIUS I pay attention... When I'm PAID to pay attention.
THOMAS DIEBER Becoming a good steward is more important than you getting your own breakthrough.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I try not to pay much attention to the whole movie star thing.
ZHANG ZIYI They say that love is more important than money, but have you ever tried to pay your bills with a hu...
SHORT QUOTES The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
DEEPAK CHOPRA The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
DEEPAK CHOPRA The more attention you pay to your surroundings, the safer you are going to be.
JANE HAGAR No one deserves you like I do.” …
“No one sees you like I do.” …
“No one under...
COLLEEN HOOVER As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Listen and pay attention to your child.
HEATHER FINDLAN I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...
ORSON WELLES You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less ...
SANAYA ROMAN Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful…
You dont have to be like everybody ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with...
TANYA MASSE i less than 4 you.
[ ( because its bigger than 3 ) ]
MEGAN Shall I speak of the consequence
One, that your attention causes?
Words you utter ke...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Eyes and ears are two.
Lungs and kidneys, too.
I wonder then
why we're born with one<...
KAMAND KOJOURI
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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