A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
#quotes #john-bunyan #christianity

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
#quotes #thomas-carlyle #nature #art #life #government

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #humor #laughing

In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
#quotes #caroline-wozniacki #denmark #people

A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #philosophical

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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
#quotes #alexander-wang #layers

A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
#quotes #john-henry-patterson #men #mind

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
#proverbs #grandparents

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
#quotes #danny-trejo #work

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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