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It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which… — Hafez
If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God… — Kabir
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for… — Tim Berners-Lee
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine… — Joseph Haydn
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — Franz Liszt
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie
The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because… — India.Arie
I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written — Judy Collins
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that… — Benjamin Disraeli
To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what… — Buddy Rich
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been… — Woodrow Wilson
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over… — William Zinsser
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation. — Richard G. Scott
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad… — Dallin H. Oaks
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a… — Jerome Rothenberg
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance. — Nick Tosches
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to… — Nick Tosches
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;… — James Weldon Johnson
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there — Jeanette Winterson
Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept… — Alan Keyes

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