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LORD HENRY PETER BROUGHAM (BROUGHAM AND VAUX) Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
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ELLEN DEGENERES The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speak...
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JAYSON ENGAY The laborer is worthy of his reward.
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C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...
CARL SAGAN The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spiri...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raí...
JULIA GREGSON Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
JULIA GREGSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...
ROBERT FROST Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...
ROBERT FROST His athletic skills led him to become a combat soldier. He wanted to be a combat soldier and he knew...
STEVE LEIBOWITZ Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.
MOHAMMED Give the laborer his wage before his perspiration be dry
MUHAMMAD Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every Ame...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If a kid complains, Danny would take him to the side, and work with him. He never embarrassed the ki...
JEFF MYERS His birthday is something I do enjoy pointing out or celebrating or recognizing myself personally, b...
DALE EARNHARDT JR I'm thinking, 'If he has a set, he has a set. Nothing I can do about it,'
DANIEL NEGREANU The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I also know about running away," I said, "when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happ...
FAITH HUNTER I also know about running away," I said, when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happi...
FAITH HUNTER Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the stat...
LIVY Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB If not, we'll likely set him up for a title defense of his WBO As-Pac title in the Philippines.
ANTONIO ALDEGUER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The offence starts with the offensive line and adding Pascal to the mix helps our team. On and off t...
GREG MARSHALL His one-of-a-kind voice and ethereal songs set him apart from all of his contemporaries and made for...
HOWARD KRAMER There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warri...
BEN FOSTER If you have a friend that complains about almost everybody,de-friend him,because you may soon become...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
GEORGE GRANVILLE That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m t...
JENNIFER CRUSIE The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition,...
XENOPHON The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes...
RICHARD BAXTER One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
SUN TZU The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundre...
ANDREW CARNEGIE If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think that has a lot to do with a persona that kind of wills the team. His teammates respond to hi...
SCOTT LINEHAN We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for us on offense. But...
CHRIS ASK We don't know if he forced her at gunpoint or if she brought him willingly. It's just a tragic set o...
JOE DURKIN We've got a lot of weapons for set pieces. If it is set up for Wyatt, his throw-in guns in there nea...
CHRIS LEWIS You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Pascal, wipe them out...all of them.
STEVE JOBS A horde of people around a person could be anyone except his friends, fans or followers; if they sta...
ANUJ SOMANY This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie...
DONNIE WILLIAMS
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BLAISE PASCAL Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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BLAISE PASCAL The stream is always purer at its source.
[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source....
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alone.
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
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earth would have been changed.
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[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
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his guide.
[Fr., Les rivieres son...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had
time to make it shorter.
[Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
BLAISE PASCAL The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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