You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.
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Related You cant find outside what you dont have inside. CARL HAMMERSCHLAG You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next. ERIC GREEN the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y... ELIZABETH SCOTT True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself. NERISSA IRVING I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f... CORMAC MCCARTHY people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are. CARL HAMMERSCHLAG You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW Dont be afraid to take a big step.You cant cross a chasm in two small steps. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE What you cant forget... God cant remember! JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. You cant change what happened in the past, but, you can change what happens in the future by doing t... DANIELLE D You cant change what happened in the past. But you can do something in the future to compensate for ... SAVIN GAMALATH When a man tells you he cant be alone dont be surprised when he gets married 4 months after you brea... STARGAZER I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just ... WILLIAM FAULKNER People dont care what you know until they know what you care JOHN C. MAXWELL Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING You dont have to live forever just live. NATALIE BABBITT Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles... WILLIAM FAULKNER What you don’t understand you cannot treasure SUNDAY ADELAJA Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS you cant win in life if you cant fail VITA NEDERLOE If you can't Change yourself, Don't Hope that other Will. FAHAD RASHIQ Well when you cant sleep well you cant dream and when you cant dream well whats life mean HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD You cant always have what you want but it's important to want what you have. HANNA SKYRING Change is the only change which cant be Changed VIJAYAKUMAR If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get. KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON Read and Mind it :)
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They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT