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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.


David Riesman

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RYNE SANDBERG Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they none...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to...
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MATT STONE Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.
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They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will b...
MUSE We'll really see if they love us or not.
DAVE CURRIE It's not going to affect us much at all.
BOB MERRILL Smoking rooms. They smelled like smoke. But we don't let the little things like that affect us.
ZENON KONOPKA There is no They, Only Us.
GRAFFITO They can only kill us once.
IMMACULéE ILIBAGIZA Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO We will be closing 73 Toys ?R' Us stores in the United States only. This does not affect our interna...
KATHLEEN WAUGH Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
MAX FRISCH Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeo...
VICENTE FOX We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giv...
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ANTHONY GREGORC Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carv...
PRIMO LEVI Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not...
ANNA SEWELL Up front they can play with an extremely large line or a smaller, quicker line. I expect a smaller l...
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RICHARD DE BURY Our challenges are not the enemy. They help us take charge; once we take charge, it creates discipli...
CHARLENA JACKSON Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethn...
ERIC WEINER People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
ACE FREHLEY Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us war...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If they did not contact us or allow us to talk with them during our outreach efforts, we believe tha...
LIBBY TURNER Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us.
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SAEB EREKAT Words cannot describe how furious I am and all of us are.
BLAIR SADLER We would ask, if you could, to pray for us. I can't express in words how brokenhearted we are.
SHERIFF JACKIE MATHENY Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in commun...
EDDIE MYERS My reaction is one of huge surprise, and in taking the few words that have been given to us about hi...
GARETH EDWARDS Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.
ED STEPHENSON Some of us are like wheelbarrows - only useful when pushed, and very easily upset
JACK HERBERT Don't just listen to the words. Look at the dance he's doing with us. The content of the words is im...
KAREN BRADLEY The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT They beat us in every part of the game. They beat us in rebounding. They beat us in effort. They bea...
BARRET PEERY We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the...
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EMILY R. FOSTER We would like to specify that the threat only concerns the embassy and does not affect any US citize...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apat...
MILAN KUNDERA People are not mean to us because they don’t like us, but because they don’t like themselves.
JODI AMAN Words divide us, actions unite us.
TUPAMOROS We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are ...
NABIL N. JAMAL They have a great fast break. The only other team that has a fast break like that is us, and they ou...
HANNAH TUOMI They can do that. I really don't care. It shouldn't affect us. I personally think, 'Just take the pi...
JEFF REYNOLDS The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki...
MADAME DE LAMBERT The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seek...
MADAME DE LAMBERT We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us
DAVID SEAMANDS Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We ca...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We ...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN They have to come in and maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender.
AHMED SAADAT Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depen...
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JOHNNY CORN Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to w...
HELEN C. JOHANNES its ok to walk freely in the rain and chuckle to yourself, it is the bizzare freaks thats inchant us...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN Change is always good; it gives you a fresh start. I look forward to having them (new principals) wi...
BETSY WILLIAMS He told us how he'll always be there for us if we need him. And he said that change is a part of lif...
BAM DOYNE Change always ruffles feathers. But to us, nothing is sacred. This is going to be good for us, good ...
ANDY MCKAY I don't expect them to change their views, and they shouldn't expect us to change our views. The iss...
SANDY BERGER This is probably the least desirable year for us to making the change.
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DAVID HEARN Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting f...
LARRY DAVID