Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.


Anne McCaffrey

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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
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Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
DOCTOR WHO
I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO
I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
BETTY WHO
According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly
DOCTOR WHO
I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up dur...
BETTY WHO
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
DR. WHO
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to f...
DOCTOR WHO
Good place to put things - cellars.
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Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
DOCTOR WHO
When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. the good things don't always s...
DOCTOR WHO
I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use...
DOCTOR WHO
There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream....
DOCTOR WHO
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
DOCTOR WHO
Resistance is useless.
DOCTOR WHO
The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,
DOCTOR WHO
I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
DOCTOR WHO
Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
BETTY WHO
See, it's packing up already!
DR. WHO
Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell...
DR. WHO
I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ...
BETTY WHO
I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas...
BETTY WHO
To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I wa...
BETTY WHO
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be wor...
BETTY WHO
I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm o...
BETTY WHO
I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if ...
BETTY WHO
I still feel like the 10-year-old dancing in front of her mirror, mostly to 'No Strings Attached...
BETTY WHO
I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going t...
BETTY WHO
The one who wills is the one who can.
PROVERB
Who loves, raves.
LORD BYRON
Who wills the end, wills the means.
PROVERB
every wall is an opportunity to guess what's on the other side
WHO?BIOGRAPHY COMICS
Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die
SENECA
The real loser is someone who tries nothing and does nothing
SOTONYE ANGA
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ou...
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Who owns Anne Frank?
CYNTHIA OZICK
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ...
THOMAS KEMPIS
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
CLAUDIUS
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
APPIUS CLAUDIUS
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
HENRY HOME
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest
HENRY HOME
He who knows nothing, loves nothing./ He who can do nothing understands nothing./ He who understands...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS
Person who loves God can not hate humans.
ANUJ SOMANY
I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
PETER BEARD
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who be...
JANE GOODALL
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundre...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
DAISY BATES
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
You know Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
THIRD DOCTOR - DOCTOR WHO
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing ...
THOMAS MERTON
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS
She who loves last loves best.
DAR WILLIAMS
Who loves me loves my dog.
LATIN PROVERB
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and...
LLOYD JONES
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
DON DELILLO
Everybody who lives here loves Cocoa Beach, but I think they'd like to see downtown a little nicer.
BOB ESTES
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with d...
PLAUTUS
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with d...
EURIPIDES
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
BUDDHA
Who loves, raves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love some...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die
he does not die a death of sham...
OSCAR WILDE
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPER
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
LAURA HARRING
"A man who changes his thoughts can change his life; a man who changes his life can change the lives...
TAMARA N. GREEN
What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves c...
ROBERT KLEIN
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temp...
ANTISTHENES
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temp...
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what...
DEB CALETTI
I'm just a girl who loves mascara.
EMILIA CLARKE
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.
NUSRAT SULTANA
Who loves well, chastises well.
PROVERB
Who loves well, chastises well.
FRENCH PROVERB
The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates.
SUZY KASSEM
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
There is always someone who loves you and someone who hates you.
VIKRANT PARSAI
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing t...
HELEN OYEYEMI
It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time." - Anne Shirley
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I think a Fashionista is someone who loves style, loves design and loves life.
ANGELA HUNT
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK
But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP
A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE