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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
— Marilyn Monroe
"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
— Winston S. Churchill
— Winston S. Churchill
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""You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love." "
— Richelle Mead
— Richelle Mead
"If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time."
— Randy Pausch
— Randy Pausch
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"I'll put on my happy face, pretend everything will be okay, you substitute me for your next best thing, I'll always be your next best thing."
— A Beautiful Silence
— A Beautiful Silence
"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Ellen Parr"
— various...
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Ellen Parr"
— various...
"Best opening line from a novel:
“It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.”
John Connolly, Unquiet, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2007, p. 21
"
— John Connolly
“It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.”
John Connolly, Unquiet, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2007, p. 21
"
— John Connolly
" I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport.
We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond the airport buildings the telegraph wires swooped gleaming above the road where passing vehicles showed lights already."
— Mary Stewart (Nine Coaches Waiting)
We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond the airport buildings the telegraph wires swooped gleaming above the road where passing vehicles showed lights already."
— Mary Stewart (Nine Coaches Waiting)
"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life."
— Cao Yu
— Cao Yu
"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."
— Philip Roth
— Philip Roth
"You can go a hundred miles a second
Don't have to drive no lousy cab
Got everything you want and more man
And the King picks up the tab
You walk around on streets of gold all day
And you never have to listen
To what these customers say and I know... "
— Marc Cohn
Don't have to drive no lousy cab
Got everything you want and more man
And the King picks up the tab
You walk around on streets of gold all day
And you never have to listen
To what these customers say and I know... "
— Marc Cohn
"A friend is someone who’ll take your drink away when they think you’ve had enough,
But a best friend;
Will look at you tripping over your own two feet and say:
“Bitch, drink the rest you know we don’t waste that stuff”"
— Shanece Ra'Shay Dampier
But a best friend;
Will look at you tripping over your own two feet and say:
“Bitch, drink the rest you know we don’t waste that stuff”"
— Shanece Ra'Shay Dampier
"The morning opens, a mist of innocence appears across the countryside that tells each one of us the day is new. That feeling of hope, love and the humble awareness of our duty becomes clear if even for a moment. It is that experience of inspiration that follows us into a small town woken by a cool frost on this Sunday morning and the laughter of children playing.
"
— Kris Courtney
"
— Kris Courtney
"We are each others angels, and we meet when it is time. We keep each other going, and we show each other signs.""
— Chuck Brodsky
— Chuck Brodsky
"Most of the money I made I spent on fast cars, drink and women, the rest I just wasted."
— George Best
— George Best
"Some people say I'm mean and this and that. On one hand that's cool. That keeps away all the riffraff and all the bugaboos"
— Rasheed Wallace
— Rasheed Wallace
"Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior."
— Carol Funk
— Carol Funk
"In its annual Best of Issue, readers voted me BEST AUTHOR of Pasadena in the annual Best of Issue in the Pasadena Weekly!!"
— Andre Coleman
— Andre Coleman
"Readers voted me BEST AUTHOR of Pasadena in the annual Best of Issue in the Pasadena Weekly!!"
— Andre Coleman
— Andre Coleman
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""Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades"
— Keith Collier
— Keith Collier
"Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do."
— Victor WIlliamson
— Victor WIlliamson
"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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" What is a best friend... it's that one person that's right there next to you when your at the point of no return, the one that's there when your scared, the one that's screaming your name at a game so loud you can't hear yourself think... the one that's gonna grow old with you and help you pick out that beutiful power scooter and ride around the block until your teeth fall out... that's a BEST FRIEND <3 "
— niya taylor
— niya taylor
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