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- If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
- Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
- I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,…
- I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine…
- You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high.…
- Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
- I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can…
- Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me.…
- I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that…
- If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy…
- There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
- Yet it is only love which sets us free.
- It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
- This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that…
- You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do…
- We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
- Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
- A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared…
- Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if…
- A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
- If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the…
- I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a…
- I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features…
- The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs…
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle