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When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have… — Martha Griffiths Copy Share Image
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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man;… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska… — Joe Miller Copy Share Image
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
May God preserve me from being rich while they are indigent, from enjoying robust health if I do not try to cure… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
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Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
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For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Having your own space is getting rarer and rarer these days. It's dangerous giving someone like me - who grew up fantasizing… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
God’s plan for you, whether you’re married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention?… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
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