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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie. — J. B. Pritzker

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge — George Galloway

Two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks. — Anne Sexton

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24). — Anonymous

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. — Warren W. Wiersbe

You think of nothing but yourself. If you want to kill yourself, what's keeping you?' I said. Silence sat between out stares.
'Fear,' he said. — Ruta Sepetys

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you. — Joel Edgerton

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it. — Neal Stephenson

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live. — Franklin Graham

Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment. — Mark Batterson

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs. — John Irving

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. — J.D. Salinger

God will facilitate, but He will not force. — Neal A. Maxwell

I promise you, when I'm done, your ass will be sore, but others will be dead." "You're not being literal, are you?" "Yes, your ass will be sore." I — Aleatha Romig

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. — Mia Hamm

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. — Alain Prost

Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti. — David Weinberger

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. — Frankie Avalon

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. — Michael Bergdahl

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree. — Jethro Tull

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. — Patrick DeWitt

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more. — Patrick Rothfuss

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. — Robert Downey Jr.

I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened. — Piper Faust

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society. — Nick Love

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation. — Nick Lowe

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other. — Louis Garrel

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois

The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others. — Larry Crabb

But live while you live, tomorrow you die ... — Leo Tolstoy

Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but ... what? — Stacey Kade

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. — Isabelle Adjani

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist. — Walter Besant

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. — Plutarch

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. — Agnes Obel

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me. — Arnold Rothstein

We all believe that, we can't buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property. — M.F. Moonzajer

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. — Sophocles

But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn't be happy anywhere else. — Anita Diamant

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others. — Jimmy Buffett

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. — John Milton

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. — King David

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way. — Anna D. Shapiro

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities. — John Cheever

I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job. — Ivan Konev

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers. — Barbara Kingsolver

The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ... — Marcel Proust

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. — Edgar Allan Poe

In his mind a man plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. — Anonymous

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. — Judith Viorst

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. — Jeanette Winterson

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer? — John Thaw

Man planned, but God prevailed. — Francine Rivers

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both. — Jessica Sanchez

Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well. — Beverly Cleary

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders. — Bill Budge

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own. — Gogen Yamaguchi

The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better. — Bob Hope

Men are men, but Man is a woman. — G.K. Chesterton

Breathe," he whispers into my ear. "Calm down, Sky. I know you're confused and scared, but I'm here. I'm right here. Just breathe. — Colleen Hoover

God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency. — Marion D. Hanks

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. — Dennis Quaid

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence. — Lech Walesa

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. — Chrissie Hynde

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel

There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things. — Volkmar Sigusch

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise. — Anna Friel

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong. — David Fincher

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy. — Jussie Smollett

We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out? — Debasish Mridha

Jeb: But I need to tell you something first.
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson

Sometimes you just have to be proud of yourself, not just because of what you doing, but because of who you are — K.C Mathobela

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it. — Ai Weiwei

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt. — Joe Royle

Nick tried to give him a reassuring smile, but he knew himself well enough to know that when he smiled, it rarely reassured anyone. — Abigail Roux

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. — Thomas Carlyle

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. — Dorothy Parker

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. — Terry Pratchett

I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl. — Amy Adams

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me. — Eric Schlosser

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted. — Brian Regan

Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community. — Beatrice Sparks