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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of… — George J. Mitchell
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination,… — Augustus William Hare
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea… — Orson Scott Card
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. — Warren Buffett
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But… — Grete Waitz
The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront… — Martha Stewart
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth… — William Butler Yeats
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show… — Corrie Ten Boom
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot
We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a… — Alan Redpath
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is… — Jim Elliot
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for… — Danny Boyle
Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. — Watchman Nee
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God… — Dwight L. Moody
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our… — Clementine Ford
Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men. — Ita Buttrose
The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over… — Ita Buttrose
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I… — Jorge Luis Borges
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy. — Prince Charles
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green,… — John Milton
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are… — Gloria Steinem
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception… — Soren Kierkegaard

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