If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
James Monroe
Related Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up. JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere... JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level. JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th... JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being... JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ... JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da... JAMES SO After rallying to 18,000 and then being sold off the market is now trying to re-establish a level of... JAMES SO He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl... HOLLY SCHINDLER if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T rang you over and over again and you woul... MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev... MELINA MARCHETTA Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prospero... JAMES MONROE It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL All I ask is that they go in if I give them a description of her and look for her, ... Now they tell... SO COLEMAN In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place ... PETER SO Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignorin... SO COLEMAN As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want... SO TAGUCHI ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo... DAPHNE DU MAURIER Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.” ― LeBron James, Shooting Stars LEBRON JAMES No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in ... BENJAMIN HARRISON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of every... B.J. NOVAK You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme examp... IMRE KERTESZ The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It'... DEYTH BANGER The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an... ANGELA CARTER In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a h... MANUEL PUIG We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than th... E. HOWARD HUNT The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS 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 If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell THOMAS MERTON If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. THOMAS MERTON One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern. CHELSEA HANDLER I sighed. "Actually, Mom, we argue pretty regularly." "What?" She gaped at me. "Well, stop it!... KIERA CASS So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ... DEYTH BANGER "Marriage is absolute love and life absolute but only husband and wife can live an absolute marri... EMANOUHL Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away. MAZ NO PARADISE It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzi... EMMA GOLDMAN It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzi... EMMA GOLDMAN The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go ... L'WREN SCOTT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who... CRISTIANE SERRUYA If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can'... MARK KIMMITT Jealousy and possessiveness seems to be the hallmark of love SOTONYE ANGA The first time you kissed me? That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart... COLLEEN HOOVER So we keep working until we find a happy medium. DEBORAH CALDWELL We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent t... HENRY KNOX If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi... JOHN ABIZAID Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding sh... LOREN EISELEY We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. OSCAR WILDE There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad... IGNACE PADEREWSKI
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