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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
DAVID BROOKS Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want...
LEMONY SNICKET Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo...
IAN WITTERS Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e...
LILY COLLINS Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON All we've been hearing all week is, 'David vs. Goliath. Well, in the real story, who won? David, rig...
ERIK HANSEN Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the tim...
MARSHA THOMASON There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that...
ÓSCAR ARIAS Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Cam...
ZELL MILLER All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON They're sensational!
HARRY STYLES Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, w...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painfu...
PAULA DANZIGER theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT People are right back where they were four years ago, confronting the reality that there are forces ...
BILL WILLIAMS Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to s...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
J.M. BARRIE A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thin...
CONAN O'BRIEN Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate ...
IAN MCKELLEN Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be bac...
STEPHEN KING Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It was a brief conversation. I told (Brooks) that I didn't want to hear anything.
DAVE REED First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!
RIC FLAIR You don't want them to be around a bunch of people because then you'll have a whole team infected. B...
BOBBY PIERCE The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Brooks is going to be working hard all week. If they meet down the line, I have confidence in Brooks...
TODD HINEGARDNER As people move in, companies follow them. We're fortunate that we're in the right place at the right...
MIKE ROSS David stands out all the time. He shows a lot of leadership with the way he plays. He plays hard all...
BUDDY GREEN An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can ...
JOSH HENDERSON The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f...
AUBREY DANIELS My son tells me all the time that he's going to be No. 20.
JENNIFER KHONSARI Most people think that when it's time to buy a car, they should immediately go to the dealerships to...
DONNA KANE Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
DONNA TARTT I was open at the right time. Coach always tells me to take those shots.
KYLE MEULI I expect some key hits at the right time from all of them.
ED PRICE David even has a list of facial expressions. He tells you which one he wants you to use for a specif...
ANNA FARIS I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and D...
RONNIE DUNN I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want ...
TOMMY HILFIGER And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footme...
BIBLE I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST That right there tells you all you need to know about who he is. Any team with Ron is getting a lot ...
BONZI WELLS Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE The simple fact is people want help from who they want it from and chose to associate with whom they...
TROY GATHERS We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the fur...
MATT ROSSELL All right, warden. Let's give them what they want.
WAYNE WHITE [The guidelines] say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as probl...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN All the research and experience tells us that education begins in our families of matters of right a...
JOHN WALTERS And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the...
WILLIAM DEVANE The most effective way of dealing with arrogant people is to let them keep assuming that we are insi...
TOBA BETA People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. PENNEBAKER We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the r...
KITTY LAGARETA 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. Counseling tells me I'm not supposed to do that, because it's all right for her to cry.
JIM FARRELL To be honest, David, I'm struggling, ... I have not been to bed yet. Behind these glasses tells a th...
DAVID GOWER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER A lot of people feel it's a God-given right to travel whenever they want to. The consequence is that...
DON CAIRNS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can...
MARK MALLORY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ...
ERIN O'CONNOR Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - a...
KAREL CAPEK Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a...
FRANK ROBINSON Let people pick the game apart as much as they want. Let them be as critical as they want. We got th...
DALLAS CLARK One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who playe...
JOSH CHARLES Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm...
JOEL MADDEN I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.
MATHIAS MALZIEU The popularity of the line tells us that we are definitely on the right track.
LAVI YEDID A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give he...
LAUREN KLARFELD We want them to know that there are others who've been thinking about them all this time.
JOE ORTEGA The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking ...
DAVID SCHWARTZ Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
DAVID OGILVY I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afra...
C. JOYBELL C. It all starts with a commitment to get it right in the eyes of our native advisers and native commun...
FRANK GOODYEAR It does tell you something. It tells you that these particular people think that it's time to divers...
KATHERINE EGBERT Just as the search committee rallied around this selection, I'm convinced that all of our industry c...
DAVID KENNEDY This is the greatest feeling in the world. Me and Brooks wanted this for a long time.
GARRETT WILLIAMSON The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love t...
JULIA CHILD A thief stops stealing when he dies
SOTONYE ANGA Jose was just in the right spot at the right time on all three of those goals. I wouldn't call them ...
JAY ANDERSON I want these girls to take away (from the conference) that they can be anything. They can do anythin...
JENNY CHAMBERLAIN The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall...
BIBLE People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you do...
DEON POTGIETER I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could se...
TERRY PRATCHETT I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperf...
MILEY CYRUS If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.
STEVEN MAGEE The only guarantee in life is death, and many people don't want to face that reality.
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers...
BRIAN NICOLA It tells a story of this lost time.
JEFF BARNES Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is...
HENRY MILLER We are excited that David Brooks will be joining us because he has a very wide and deep understandin...
ELLEN MICKIEWICZ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you wi...
BIBLE Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.
TIM COOK It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
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RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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