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PYTHAGORAS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
ERIC CLOSE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA' They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ...
BROOKE SMITH Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
EVAN DAUGHERTY Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
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GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' 'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.
DAVID SHUSTER One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three wo...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's,...
MARA BROCK AKIL Every time something happens, whether I've won the most or lost the most, there's always ...
DANIEL NESTOR The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
MAXIM GORKY The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your who...
MARK KIRK 'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO 'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American C...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who...
SUSAN ESTRICH 'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I&...
MOBY The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
DAVID TANG I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is pr...
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER, JR. The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My an...
AARON COPLAND I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are n...
BO BICE There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like &#...
JIM LEACH I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.
LISA SNOWDON When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I w...
ANNIE DILLARD I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it'...
CAMILA ALVES I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do ...
PETE HAMILL I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those remov...
JAMES ARTHUR The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little atte...
MARY TYLER MOORE I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Wheneve...
GRETCHEN RUBIN On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi...
ERIC DANE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo...
EMMA CAULFIELD You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bos...
CLARE BALDING Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kiddin...
ALBERT S. RUDDY The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here ...
RONALD REAGAN When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
PAUL KALANITHI The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a po...
BERNARD GOLDBERG Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, the...
LITTLE RICHARD My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you...
RACHEL NICHOLS Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.
LINDSAY LOHAN This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mot...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's...
VIGGO MORTENSEN Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.
EUGENE MIRMAN 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I ...
GEORGE CARLIN Genes are overrated...

Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym flo...
DR DEEPAK HIWALE, AKA 'THE FITNESS DOC' The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But ...
HOWARD JACOBSON To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see o...
DOMENICO DOLCE 'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the posi...
DICK MORRIS I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron...
DAN SAVAGE It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, an...
AIDY BRYANT Am in the making, you can't break me. Life to me, is a Chain. It will loose just at the right time b...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too si...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
TAYLOR HICKS While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in th...
HELEN GARNER When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words...
CORITA KENT There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because ...
PENELOPE CRUZ What 'SNL' taught me that was useful on 'The Watch' was, only put in bad words if th...
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PYTHAGORAS A thought is an idea in transit.
PYTHAGORAS The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
PYTHAGORAS There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created c...
PYTHAGORAS No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
PYTHAGORAS There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
PYTHAGORAS Silence is better than unmeaning words.
PYTHAGORAS Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control hi...
PYTHAGORAS Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
PYTHAGORAS Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control him...
PYTHAGORAS In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
PYTHAGORAS It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl ...
PYTHAGORAS Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a h...
PYTHAGORAS Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
PYTHAGORAS Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
PYTHAGORAS In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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PYTHAGORAS There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
PYTHAGORAS As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal...
PYTHAGORAS Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
PYTHAGORAS Beans have a soul.
PYTHAGORAS Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
PYTHAGORAS Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
PYTHAGORAS It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of ...
PYTHAGORAS Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
PYTHAGORAS Above all things, reverence yourself.
PYTHAGORAS Virtue is harmony.
PYTHAGORAS If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard...
PYTHAGORAS Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
PYTHAGORAS Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy ...
PYTHAGORAS Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
PYTHAGORAS Number rules the universe.
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PYTHAGORAS Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will
PYTHAGORAS Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance
PYTHAGORAS The oldest, shortest words - "yes' and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
PYTHAGORAS Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten
PYTHAGORAS No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
PYTHAGORAS As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...
PYTHAGORAS most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have t...
PYTHAGORAS A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS