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Related We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD We've had about nine days off and we have a virus going around on the team, so some of our starters ... JEFF NEWHALL To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER We had some positives to build on. We were able to move the ball in the second half and we held them... BILL INGERSOLL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Anytime Ozark and Farmington get together it's going to be a battle and it was tonight. I thought we... BRAD BLEW Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA We were able to move the ball. If we could have gotten a couple of stops here and there we would've ... CURT WARE I think everyone knows someone who's tried to quit and had everything from free months of service to... JOSEPH LASZLO Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest. FAROOQ ABDULLAH I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I told them that we had done something very special, but that we were going to be a very different f... JOE POWEL Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without a... BILL GATES We got our education on the job because we didn't know this business. We had started out growing tre... CRAIG ROTH The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.' LIL WAYNE In people's minds, I had failed and was on the outs, so I was able to go back and concentrate on mak... SANDRA BULLOCK We knew we could move the ball on them but we just couldn't hold on to it. In the first half we didn... GARY GRIFFIN Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN We were feeling each other out early on. We had more post players than they did. They only had two, ... DARRON ROGERS You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS We really are looking for a fair deal and believe there is one to be made here. We were there for th... ALAN ROSENBERG I expected them to make a comeback. They're Tennessee. But we had so much depth, we were able to kee... LINDSEY HARDING We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want... IAN WILLIAMSON Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We had a routine going here. Now we're going to have a new routine. CINDY MILLER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers. ELIZABETH GEORGE I thought we started to move the ball up the court faster than we had been. I think our size was a d... CHUCK VALLERO Here comes another one of the stud teams, so we'd better be prepared. We have had a tough schedule, ... CHRIS CICHOCKI I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ... SARAH DESSEN I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling. 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The years of stewardship of this wonderful place have given me the chance to celebrate many accompli... VIRGINIA ANDERSON We give them a chance to express themselves in a lot of different ways. VIRGINIA ANDERSON We come here just about every Thursday, ... We've been coming here for years. VIRGINIA ANDERSON I knew that if you had a quality product and a beautiful container, you're going to make it, VIRGINIA ANDERSON The largest candles will burn 62 hours if the wick is kept trimmed, ... Our 9-ounce candle will burn... VIRGINIA ANDERSON Arkadelphia public schools ensure that homeless children and youth have equal access to the same fre... VIRGINIA ANDERSON It's ready to go to the next big stage. So I feel good about that. VIRGINIA ANDERSON You pick up your chair, and move to where you want to listen, VIRGINIA ANDERSON My resignation date allows me to follow through with the work of this important committee. 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The way you cope with it is what make... VIRGINIA SATIR Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem. VIRGINIA SATIR Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, th... VIRGINIA POSTREL There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest gro... VIRGINIA FOXX Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bi... VIRGINIA POSTREL The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc... VIRGINIA POSTREL It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or... VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ... VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l... 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VIRGINIA WOOLF It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir... VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. VIRGINIA WOOLF Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t... VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t... VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. VIRGINIA WOOLF I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying ... VIRGINIA MADSEN If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo... VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. 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VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to... VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. VIRGINIA WOOLF A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become... VIRGINIA POSTREL Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel ... VIRGINIA POSTREL The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ... VIRGINIA FOXX Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors. VIRGINIA FOXX Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults i... VIRGINIA SATIR Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we... VIRGINIA POSTREL The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. VIRGINIA POSTREL The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim ... VIRGINIA POSTREL Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and... VIRGINIA POSTREL Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer p... VIRGINIA POSTREL When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing... VIRGINIA WOOLF The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. VIRGINIA FOXX When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in... VIRGINIA POSTREL Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft... VIRGINIA FOXX Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radicall... VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the... VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before ... VIRGINIA POSTREL From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour.... VIRGINIA POSTREL The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban... VIRGINIA POSTREL Language is wine upon the lips. VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. VIRGINIA WOOLF I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ... VIRGINIA WILLIAMS What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of ... VIRGINIA SATIR Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some messa... VIRGINIA SATIR Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depe... VIRGINIA POSTREL Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and ... VIRGINIA POSTREL A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu... VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi... VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu... VIRGINIA WOOLF Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for mysel... VIRGINIA TOOLE