Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
#quotes #jacqueline-novogratz #time #life #earth

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
#quotes #hans-kung #poverty

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
#quotes #merle-shain #beginning #ending

A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
#proverbs #promise #stupidity

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
#quotes #ernest-holmes #freedom #nature #law

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
#quotes #stephen-rea #people

Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
#quotes #michael-flanders #eating

"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
#quotes #janet-evanovich #cars

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
#quotes #zoe-sugg #experience #anxiety

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
#quotes #bob-colacello #italian

I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
#quotes #james-patterson #children #family #tv

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
#quotes #georg-c-lichtenberg #freedom #free-will

The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
#quotes #verlyn-klinkenborg

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
#quotes #gracie-gold #olympics

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
#quotes #james-fenton #english

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
#quotes #tom-hiddleston #bullying

I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
#quotes #hope-davis

I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
#quotes #jeff-greene #estate

On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
#quotes #chris-wooding

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
#quotes #james-herbert #hypocrisy #politics

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
#quotes #frank-black #music #rules

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
#quotes #ned-rorem