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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly


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JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
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JAMES C. DOBSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... How can we ever have peace when we cant even make peace with the things we cant control.
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now w...
ROBERT BIANCO Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
SIR JOSIAH STAMP It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
JOSIAH CHARLES STAMP It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
JOSIAH STAMP We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.
PICABO STREET We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M It is a real mystery. You can only put together little bits and pieces. There are things I know, thi...
GAIL BEGLEY The company's billings growth continues to decelerate, a trend we expected to reverse its course. Gi...
BRAD REBACK Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS As a bird takes flight, there is no fear of falling. Its is a bird and birds fly. You are a human an...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG I think we looked a little flat and sluggish. It was a little disappointing, but we had a lot of dis...
BRAD HARRIS What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Death is a sickness that everyone is born with, but sometimes we dodge the bullets.
PHOENIX MILLER Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Just because I cant fly, don't think you can keep me on the ground.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Defensively, we've got a little more depth, ... We lost quite a few good players Š but we're deeper...
STEVE HAWKINS It was a little insane, ... Things went bad and things went good. It should have been a little highe...
SCOTT JENSEN Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and i...
BRIAN THORNTON None of us can worry about that, because it's not something we can control.
AL ROKER It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A lot of things have to go our way, but we can't think about that. We have to worry about what we ca...
MARK SACCOMANNO Men will lust no matter what. Men lust over artistic photography and 5 year old children. We cant ch...
NERISSA IRVING A hurricane is kind of like an elephant -- it can go just about anywhere it pleases.
CLIFF LUSK More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from tellin...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, an...
KOOL MOE DEE It was a little too much Blaine Howell and a little too much A.C. Reynolds tonight. We played a litt...
TOM SMITH When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone ...
TYLER JOSEPH I was glad to see us come out early and swing the bat. We had a little bit of a slump and weren't hi...
DAN MEDINA The Sun can handle the clouds, but it cant fight with an eclipse. Lalit Bhojwani
LALIT BHOJWANI Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.
DANNY WALLACE Josh has the potential to be an impact player at the Division I level given his size and shooting sk...
LARS TIFFANY This season things were a little different for us. We were and are confident, but the level of compe...
FELECIA INGLE Fort Dodge gave us some chances with fumbles. It was back and forth, but it comes back to making pla...
BRIAN WOODLEY Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if w...
DOUG E. FRESH We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manu...
DAVID CRONENBERG We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opport...
BILL TIERNEY The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and w...
AUSTEN ARNAUD Josh wanted to fly in [to Indianapolis] but it wasn't going to happen. You don't even ask [as a mino...
BUDDY PRESSLEY I think it left an impression, because in (my) four years, he had never done something like that. It...
ADAM BURISH The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, y...
OWAIN YEOMAN Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wron...
MARY HEMINGWAY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wron...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Fantasyland communicates with the part of us that believes we can fly, and knows that there are mons...
LESLIE LE MON That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM We can show that we can move right into an industry to fly the public at the level of safety that th...
BURT RUTAN It was more of a case of Dodge City wants to win basketball games, too. We didn't have one of our be...
CHAD WINTZ We know all we can worry about is the first game and go from there. But with some of the teams that ...
JUAN RUEDA What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But...
JOHN GAY We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
LUCIANO DECRESCENZO We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO Passing and serving needs to improve, it just needs to become a little more consistent. But we don't...
KATHY WHITWORTH A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. ...
WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act...
DANIEL GOLEMAN Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHAL Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge
STENDHAL We are already learning new things about the Saturn system. We will fly by Phoebe on June 11th and t...
CANDICE HANSEN But here’s the problem you’re not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of...
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We stand tall, we stand proud, we are the ‘fly’ generation
We thi...
SAAHIL PREM To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN We played a really good team tonight, and we carried bits of luck. I haven't seen the goal that was ...
DAVID MOYES [But even aspirin cant counteract the] universal fear epidemic ... that didnt truly threaten us. The...
MARC SIEGEL The human heart knows thing the eyes cant see, and feels the things the mind cant understand.. but i...
VANESSA SCHIFFER We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's...
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VICTOR HUGO Kyle got hurt, so we take that personally. Hopefully, we can correct those things that we did and pu...
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C. JOYBELL C. Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
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JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get...
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
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JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect
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JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
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JOSH BILLINGS It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
JOSH BILLINGS I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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