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We will not get anywhere in life unless we wake up one day and decide that enough is enough, and consciously choose to take the time to close all the issues, patterns, belief systems and whatever else is no longer working for us. ~ Joseph Ghabi


Joseph Ghabi

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KEN POIROT We're getting better. We gave ourselves enough opportunities to beat (Joseph).
CURTIS BROWN A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So are we lost or do we know
Which direction we should go
Sit around and wait for someone ...
LOST PROPHETS Afterwards, we will decide if the player fulfils our requirements and whether that is enough for us ...
KLAUS FUCHS If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Joseph Wambaugh is a hero to today's crime writers, and 'Hollywood Station' will school them all: to...
MICHAEL PIETSCH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. We definitely have a tough stretch coming up. Right now, we're just going to focus on St. Joseph and...
DREW CARSTENS The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good e...
OSCAR WILDE The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...
OSCAR WILDE When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at ...
PAULO COELHO When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at ...
PAULO COELHO Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS It's not for them to decide whether it is relevant or not. It's for Judge [Joseph] Condon to decide....
MARK GUMMERSON In a short time a group of commissioners arrived to begin organization of a new Indian agency in the...
DEE BROWN The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is "I didnt get enough sleep." The n...
LYNNE TWIST This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We can all be struggling, and Todd is the guy who can wake up in the morning, get pissed off and go ...
BILL DEMONG He only made one mistake in the hairpin and we weren't close enough to take advantage.
PAUL TRACY We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN He was good enough long enough to let us get in the game and we didn't take advantage.
RANDY CUNNEYWORTH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a ...
DONELLA MEADOWS One article that says privacy will be protected is not enough. We want clear language in each articl...
GUS HOSEIN Don't get so caught up in everything that you think you're supposed to do that you forget to enjoy t...
AKIROQ BROST It's amazing how we wake up every day and just take for granted that life will go on. We know the re...
BENJAMIN J. CAREY I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations t...
MICHAEL JORDAN Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a...
GORE VIDAL And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ISAAC ASIMOV Joseph
Voilà c'que c'est, mon vieux Joseph
Que d'avoir pris la plus jolie
Par...
GEORGES MOUSTAKI We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from t...
THOR HEYERDAHL Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life i...
JOHN PIPER Life was given to us to be happy and to be what we want to be. Enough of letting the unknown force t...
PHILIP T. M. We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake u...
ELLEN K. WOOKEY Bullies do not just wake up and decide to be one. They are people who have or are experiencing emoti...
KEMI SOGUNLE Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think...
ISAAC ASIMOV We hope that they'll look at this settlement and see that perhaps this is an appropriate time with e...
TOM BURT Obviously this is a difficult time for us, but we are working to resolve all the issues.
WILLIAM COLLIER I know the players wanted him (Joseph) to get this at home. He's been tremendous for us all year lon...
WAYNE GRETZKY Are we ready enough? Decisive enough and united enough to bring changes? The answer is millions of y...
ZORAN DJINDJIC The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME Joseph Farah and I share a fierce passion for protecting children and a belief that without the Ten ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd...
BUCK OWENS Do not say such things," said the Queen. "We have today and yesterday, and we will seize tomorrow. W...
JESSICA KHOURY We scored that last field goal, and me and [tackle] Jonathan Ogden were kind of saying to ourselves,...
EDWIN MULITALO Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake ...
HENRY MILLER The one thing that we can never get enough of is Love and the one thing we never give enough is Love...
HENRY MILLER Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of th...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Intuition directs us to take the appropriate path to be successful in what we happen to do...But, ta...
NISHI DE SILVA But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. Thi...
DAVE EGGERS No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER We talked to about 150 customers during our process, and we identified two issues that led us to bel...
BARRY CRIST I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or late...
BARBARA SHER Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the Wes...
GARETH GATES We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first t...
SIGMAR GABRIEL There is an end waiting for all of us; an end waiting to show us records of our journey. Mind the en...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...
JASON MRAZ It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited,...
LEMONY SNICKET Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in ...
BIBLE All these candidates talk about children. George W. Bush has pictures with minority kids all the tim...
RALPH NADER We will continue to be here and give witness for the need to close this down. To the day when this w...
JACKIE HUDSON We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and ...
BUCK OWENS We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be asser...
EDITH EVA EGER The soul of us is never confused about why it is here.
It only asks us to wake up and see the b...
JACOB NORDBY We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough...
DAVID LEVITHAN It's proof that on this day we were the best team in the world. It's like the skydiving Olympics. We...
BEN MASSEY I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at th...
THOMAS STEINBECK I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society witho...
ROBERT REDFORD We are in touch with Commerce almost every day on a variety of issues. Anything the government is do...
ROB HARALSON Life is an enigma. Every day we wake up and we don’t know who or what we will expect.
BLIZZ From a distance, We all have enough, And no one is in need,And there are no guns, no bombs and no di...
JULIE GOLD Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without e...
ROBERT SKIDELSKY EDWARD SKIDELSKY Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for th...
GARRISON KEILLOR Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
HENRY MILLER Prosecutors will no longer need to search for a crime that in the end will not have a stiff enough p...
KURT BAUER One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ...
GORDON ATKINSON No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone some...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or tw...
LEMONY SNICKET We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob...
WILLIAM BOOTH is no longer a partner we can trust, and we want new elections, preferably as soon as possible. It's...
GERRIT ZALM I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...
VERONICA ROTH The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us...
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JOSEPH CONRAD I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his ow...
JOSEPH FARRELL You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Imagination is the eye of the soul.
JOSEPH JOUBERT One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT