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James J. Corbett

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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is ...
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest rew...
CANDICE MILLARD Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND The value of good patience is a price paid for a sufficient glory
BOAZ AKUDE The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes...
JAMES MCBRIDE Winning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, ....
JACQUELINE WILSON When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the...
RICHARD RUSSO Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES This is a devastating loss for J and our team. J is a proven leader and when he sets goals, he gets ...
RUSS HELLICKSON All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum...
IRIS MURDOCH The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so...
MERRIE HASKELL About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Truth is its own reward.
PLATO Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they writ...
JULIAN GREEN We all know that there is a reward for every labour as well as there is a reward for every game play...
GODSPOWER OPARAUGO The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON The truth is, I'm not body confident.
TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL A gift of truth is the gift of love.
DAVID ICKE Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.
MATT BERNINGER Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Truth is always a delusion.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her
ADRIENNE RICH When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
ADRIENNE RICH Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
TRACEY EMIN Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is...
PLINY THE YOUNGER Science appears but what in truth she is,/ Not as our glory and our absolute boast,/ But as a succed...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS For me, having it all is being paid to write novels,
CANDACE BUSHNELL The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The reward for a job well done is more work.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
EDWIN MARKHAM Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many d...
ELOISA JAMES She is alleging that she is entitled to more, beyond what she got and the problem is that J. Howard ...
ERIC BRUNSTAD Having our voices heard in the wilderness is akin to sharing our souls. Angelina J. Windsor
ANGELINA J. WINDSOR In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
JONAS SALK She turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When a man paid 'for' you....
MALLIKA NAWAL Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANON. Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-do...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
THOMAS LENNON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's for the other lads as well as for James that I'll keep fighting to get my son the help he needs...
MARK PIOTROWSKI To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
VACLAV HAVEL Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD A lot of truth is said in jest.
EMINEM Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
MAHATMA GANDHI The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
ROBERT CAPA All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
TERRY EAGLETON The point of copyright law is not to give people absolute control over everything they write. It's t...
JASON SCHULTZ He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied, And therein do acco...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to wri...
MARY BAKER EDDY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
FRANKLIN KNIGHT LANE The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it
VOLTAIRE Give me a sandwich and think you saved the world? It don't work like that! God sent you to give me t...
MATHEW QUICK To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on ...
MARY BAKER EDDY WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, the journey is the reward.
RANDY KOMISAR All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ...
STEPHEN KING In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
UNKNOWN Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...
MAX LUCADO Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO When you have success, there is glory for all. With success and glory come great feelings for one an...
JIMMY JOHNSON They let the team down, they let us down. There is no way that team beats us with James and Jihad.
DEVON DOWNEY Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathema...
DAVID DEUTSCH Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.
AULIQ ICE Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is t...
JIM BUTCHER Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
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J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE