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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to… — Gary Larson
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their… — Jean de la Bruyere
Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set… — John Robbins
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying… — Samuel Alexander
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled… — Boethius
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. — Edward Abbey
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose… — Thomas Jefferson
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy… — Ray Bradbury
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used… — Adam Duritz
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul… — William Carlos Williams
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good… — Walt Whitman
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness. — Ali Smith

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