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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.


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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
SPIKE MILLIGAN The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
LEO ROSTEN To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to se...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes ...
CHARLES E. WILSON You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You can not transmit an idea unl...
WALLACE D. WATTLES Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Everyone has a birth right and potential to become prosperous.
SATYA KALRA Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and fo...
LEWIS MUMFORD The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001.
JASON FURMAN All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind ...
ARISTOTLE While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
GROUCHO MARX The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't...
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works...
DAVID P. MIKKELSON It's the right idea, but not the right time.
JOHN DALTON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an ...
BARRY C. FORBES It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should ...
TODD AKIN I encourage everyone to send in the update form so I can send them new map pages, which they can eas...
CLINT LAND If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
DAVID GRANN Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyon...
STEPHEN KINZER I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a...
TSAI ING-WEN Unless we make efforts to destroy are miseries we can not become wealthy and prosperous.
YAJUR VEDA It's the right idea, but not the right time.
JOHN DALTON Creating equality in the society means helping poor to become prosperous and not asking prosperous t...
AMIT KALANTRI The world can only be impressed by prosperous Christians
SUNDAY ADELAJA Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to ce...
RENAE A. SAUTER I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, sm...
KATE BERNHEIMER People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS... Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically...
STANLEY HAUERWAS It's the right idea, but not the right time. It's pretty clear that (a Certificate of Need applicati...
JOHN DALTON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
SWAMI SIVANANDA The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organizat...
MARY DOUGLAS The rest of us can find happiness in misery.
FALL OUT BOY I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.
ALEXANDER ZHURAVLYOV Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, i...
OSSIE DAVIS Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us,...
OSSIE DAVIS Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change it can not only move us, i...
OSSIE DAVIS From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER As a result of that, a jurisdiction that has impressive registry requirements, as South Dakota does,...
DAVE NELSON He's not as easily moved as he once was.
JEFF EVENS The idea is to form a habit, to get in the habit of getting out on a regular basis.
KAREN SMITH A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic ...
ROBERT MANKOFF It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
PRINCE ANDREW Without a special understanding of finances, your education will not make you a successful and prosp...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.
EDWARD TENNER There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not...
MARK TWAIN If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easi...
TOMMY LEE JONES I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the mise...
ARTHUR GOLDEN I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a youn...
ERIC HOFFER Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter p...
TARUN SHARMA Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form
IMMANUEL KANT You can die the death of a thousand cuts very easily.
ADAM CUMMINGS You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it your...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we hav...
HENRY FUSELI That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
ARTHUR LAFFER This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express th...
PAUL SCHRADER I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discour...
C. J. MAHANEY Consumers can boost their organization quotient more easily than they realize. There are many hidden...
DOUG KRIEGER I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
DORIS LESSING A man's ego can drive him either to heights of glory or to depths of misery!
AVIJEET DAS Most conservatives have been historically strong defense people, but have been reluctant to embrace ...
DAVID KEENE I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.
MITCHELL REISS 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. A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the mornin...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi...
JOHN ABIZAID That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the h...
JAMES THOMSON Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Passion can turn a dumb business idea to a great business idea & lack of passion can turn a great bu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) ... And listen carefully, when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring ...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ...
TAN LE It's definitely not for the easily offended,
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