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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN
Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Style is King, 2008.
SUZY KASSEM
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING
I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
When going on the journey of life we should always put caution to the wind and have strength in ever...
GARY F EVANS...
To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
GARY F EVANS...
If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS...
How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY
How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D.
If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS
We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONO
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM
if you are waiting for right excuse then it is good because some conclusions always are necessary fo...
PēTERIS BITāNS
7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works...
MEISTER ECKHART
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
MARC NEWSON
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN
Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE
A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are...
THOMAS S. MONSON
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER
Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK
The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not...
ELEANOR H. PORTER
If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
SUZETTE VEARNON
People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY
There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
NINA LACOUR
Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.
Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS
If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT
Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
HANNAH HART
Anything is possible if yo've got enough nerve,
J.K. ROWLING
I give away examples!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON
Try not to be someone else. Be you and be glad you are you
SOTONYE ANGA
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
BRENé BROWN
To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b...
JONES VERY
When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA
As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other...
DEYTH BANGER
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
VANESSA FERLITO
The game is meant to be fun.
JACK NICKLAUS
You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery...
WILLIAM GLASSER
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If y...
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
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Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
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The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ...
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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac...
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...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by ot...
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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...
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Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i...
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t...
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...
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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...
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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...
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People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
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She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
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I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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