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When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.


Elizabeth Kostova

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ELIZABETH KENNY Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
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GEORGE REX Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA Today is a new day for the land.
ANTONIS SAMARAS Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be abl...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Your guidance surrounds you all day long, every day, all the time, never leaving you, not even for o...
CATHERINE CARRIGAN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
JANE AUSTEN Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter bec...
SAADI You can make new friends all day long but you can never make an old one.
JULIE JAMESON The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.
COREY HAWKINS I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Happiness is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth.
A FRIEND Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Each new day that you handle the steering of your car,know that you are a learner because you are go...
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And before the street begins,
And there the grass...
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DAVID FINCHER If your friendship, relationship, amorousness of that of many years has dead-ended, you feel your wo...
PEX PARKER So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, B...
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J.I. PACKER 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... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.
DAVE FOLEY A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
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NICK HORNBY A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
CHRISTI MARY WARNER Today resolve to get rid of all the negativity that has been eating you away, dump those thoughts wh...
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SAM HOUSTON If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
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ROBERT KIRKMAN For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and ...
BOB FELLER I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
PETER ROSKAM A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
CHRISTI MARY WARNER I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was a beautiful day and a sad day all rolled into one. We all lost a good friend. If you knew Kev...
JEFF WELZ Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned...
VERNON L. SMITH The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
PERRY CHRISTIE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
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MAGDALENA FRACKOWIAK Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things al...
PAULO COELHO You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
TOM BODETT Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that ...
DOUG BRINKLEY Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them r...
JAMES BUCKHAM Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, a...
RAINA TELGEMEIER Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
FREDERICK W. FABER There is no bigger dream than to have your best friend at work with you every day playing your best ...
HEATHER GRAHAM When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ' I am new in this day'.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is a new wine; when if...
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WALT DISNEY COMPANY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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ADAM SILVERA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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CAVETT ROBERT You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
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life.
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ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti...
ELIZABETH DREW Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR