Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
#quotes #j-k-rowling #snape

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
#quotes #tom-hiddleston #entertainment #judging

I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
#quotes #philip-green #business

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
#quotes #warren-christopher #law

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
#quotes #howard-staunton #board

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
#quotes #rose-george #freedom #caste #india

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
#quotes #craig-claiborne #entertainment #santa