You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
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Related To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy SOTONYE ANGA O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be? ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. DANA PLATO This is your moment. You're meant to be here. HERB BROOKS To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you. CHARLIE WATTS Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable. AKSEL HENNIE To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy. SAMANTHA MORTON You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them... GERMANY KENT I wouldn’t change a thing Because all those things led me to this place And to you ELIZABETH EULBERG Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I k... KATIE MCGARRY Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try. BIPASHA BASU Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin... ANNETTE BENING You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures... DAVE CHAPPELLE You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every d... DAN O'BRIEN And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are... THOMAS S. MONSON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ... ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ... L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not... ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it. SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me. NINA LACOUR Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ... JOSEPH SMITH JR.
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