| "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." »Winston Churchill |
| "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them." »Hugh Prather |
| "Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language." »Austin Elliot |
| "I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers." »Albert Camus |
| "With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber |
| "For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell |
| "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year." »Horace Mann |
| "It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction" »Abraham Lincoln |
| "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." »Ronald Reagan |
| "These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield |
| "life lives, life dies. life laughs, life cries. life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes." »Unknown |
| "life Is A Challenge - Meet It life Is A Song - Sing It life Is A Dream - Realize It life Is A Game - Play It life Is Love - Enjoy It" »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba |
| "There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life." »B. J. Gupta |
| "If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." »Albert Camus |
| "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." »E. B. White |
| "What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." »Albert Einstein |
| "A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be." »Henry Miller |
| "Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service." »Bruce Kemper |
| "It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." »Stephen Hawking |
| "Tell me not, in mournful numbers,life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.life is real life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it." »Paul E. Pfuetze |
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