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DUSTIN HOFFMAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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MARTIN AMIS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, wh...
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JOHNSON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
JOHN MASON BROWN In Creation, there is nothing more holy than every day life.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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DOUGLAS SIRK Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
NAOMIE HARRIS The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
ROBERT FROST There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our eco...
JIM JEFFORDS To stand on the
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JIM ROHN I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
VINCENT VAN GOGH I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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LAO-TZU In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is h...
LAO TZU Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a...
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JUDGE GOODING There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the tru...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
JIM ROHN There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is worth more than this day.
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JON RONSON Nothing is created without a reason, be open…
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HONORE DE BALZAC Mother Superior jump the gun...
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STEVE MARABOLI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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UNKNOWN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the qu...
LEO TOLSTOY There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to piece...
ALEXANDER HERZEN There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
VOLTAIRE Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
BARON D'HOLBACH There is nothing, animate or inanimate, that can exist without Me.
BHAGAVAD GITA There is nothing more dangerous than ignorant people who think they know everything.
KEN NDARU For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects...
STEPHEN DOBYNS There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that ...
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BUDDHA There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that ...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA We will give no more than what was offered to the jury ? that is, that he was guilty of accessory af...
J. TONY SERRA There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more t...
BLAKE EDWARDS From what we can tell, this is nothing more than a reasonable disagreement among reasonable people.
CRAIG MOFFETT What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
LAO TZU Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it
LAO TZU There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...
STEFAN ZWEIG There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.
BRYANT MCGILL Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... There is nothing that legislators can do this session that is more important than the affordable hou...
JAIMIE ROSS There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann...
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CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
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WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY