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The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
RABBI ABRAHAM HESCHEL No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest au...
CHRISTA WOLF It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the...
DAVID NOVAK I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Life is unpredictable.
We can not tell will happen in a minute.
We have no control of tomo...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER No matter how far he can go in his entire life. No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life...
KAZERONNIE MAK Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...
GEORGE S. PATTON How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
MALCOLM X There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy le...
STEPHEN HAWKING When I was a kid, I thought I had my life figured out. I knew where I was going. I was sure of whom ...
CRISTINA MARRERO Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
P.D. JAMES The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER [In his autobiography] Sadaharu Oh, a Zen Way of Baseball, ... acquire the body of a rock.
SADAHARU OH Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of h...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An...
C.J. ROBERTS Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to on...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begu...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suff...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and d...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war w...
HERMANN GOERING Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war wh...
HERMANN GOERING It takes one person to rewrite the history book.
J.R. RIM Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY It's an unpredictable runaway chemical reaction no one predicted.
ROBERT WRIGHT One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES He reiterated his commitment to ensuring life of peace, self-respect for people of J&K.
SANJAYA BARU He felt she could be unpredictable and possibly violent. At one point, she indicated to him that she...
STEVEN LANDES Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 The Abrahamic ...
JAMES KELSO The beauty about life is that it ends in unpredictable death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the cou...
CARLOS WALLACE The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at t...
ROBERT ANDERSON Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of you...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of ...
FRANCINE RIVERS No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ In the Bible, when God made a covenant with Abraham, He removed Abraham from the pagan world. The pa...
CELSO CUKIERKORN Appreciation and remembrance are two vital tools that can advance our progress in life.
WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM) Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war...
HERMANN GOERING One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
STEPHEN HAWKING At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in eve...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 One can believe in the divinity of Jesus ...
CATHERINE MARSHALL I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
SIDNEY POITIER Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear.
GAVIN MILLS In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
GLENDA RADORES Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte...
DAVID LEVITHAN These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e...
SIMONE ELKELES You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS We work closely enough with the players during the week. Jose does preparation in advance of the gam...
BALTEMAR BRITO And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
BIBLE I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour...
ELTON JOHN One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was on the abutment.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY