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What will be is up to me — Kevin Green

I get mail; therefore I am. — Scott Adams

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery. — Demetri Martin

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. — Grantland Rice

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased) — Robert Green Ingersoll

To paraphrase Montaigne - even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse. — M.J. Carter

When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded, they have intrinsic power that is not communicated when paraphrased. — Richard G. Scott

He who hesitates is a damned fool. — Mae West

Genius has its limitations.
Insanity ... not so much -Bumper Sticker — Darynda Jones

We didn't speak our truest thoughts, and paraphrased our souls until we didn't know our feelings, and so were strangers to ourselves. — Adam Novy

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. — Banksy

When a man plans, a woman laughs. — David Wong

Forgiveness is given to us from God not because we deserve it. Forgiveness is given to us by the grace of God.(Paraphrased message from the Bible.) — Dortha Jackson

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. — Chinua Achebe

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Teresa

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased — Percival Everett

I've always heard that by the time you see the teeth, its too late."

(this quote paraphrased in several Jayne Castle books) — Jayne Castle

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. — Remy De Gourmont

Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. — Steven Pinker

Time wounds all heels. — Groucho Marx

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. — Philip Pullman

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly — Andre Breton

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. — Mother Teresa

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure — Oscar Wilde

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. — Cassandra Clare

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill

Mothers are the necessity of invention. — Bill Watterson

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe — Louis Mountbatten

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it. — Ilona Andrews

The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin. — Terry Pratchett

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased — Oliver Goldsmith

Evil will win if good people do nothing. — P.C. Cast

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. — Cathy Hopkins

Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski

I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: "I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it." NASA: "Dick. — Andy Weir

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. — Amy Sedaris

There is no God and we are his prophets. — Cormac McCarthy

Believe everything you read — Kurt Cobain

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. — Kurt Vonnegut

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar. — Terry Pratchett

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. — Diogenes Laertius

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. — Barbara De Angelis

In all your getting, get understand. Proverbs paraphrased — Katie Canty

When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire") — Kresley Cole

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time — Bob Marley

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — G.K. Chesterton

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. — Marian Keyes

Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned") — F Scott Fitzgerald

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. — Anne Rice

Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa

People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote)) — Helen Keller

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year. — Joey Green

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased) — Patrick Rothfuss

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Familiarity breeds complacency. — Rick Warren

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. — Albert Einstein

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving. — Richelle Mead

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with — Ben Carson

Excess makes the heart grow fonder... — John Balance

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. — Neil Gaiman

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased) — Patrick Rothfuss

The curve is more powerful than the sword. — Mae West

The proper study of Mankind is Everything. — Margaret Atwood

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. — William Shakespeare

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. — Groucho Marx

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else — L.J.Smith

To be or not to be. That's not really a question. — Jean-Luc Godard

Love yourself before you love someone else. — Leslie Becker-Phelps

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? — Brad Warner

A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. - Paraphrased from The Boxer — Paul Simon

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. — Jim Butcher

I came, I saw, I concurred... — Darren E. Laws

Science advances one funeral at a time. — Max Planck

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. — Henry Thomas Buckle

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us. — Malcolm X

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. — Reduced Shakespeare Company

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. — Terry Pratchett

Nothing is forever except change. — Gautama Buddha

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it. quote from Tara Daniels — Jill Shalvis

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. — Mother Teresa

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. — Bertrand Russell

The only good human being is a dead one. — George Orwell

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. — Oscar Wilde

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. — Neil Gaiman

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. — Louise Brooks

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

So many things to see, people to do. — Neil Gaiman

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. — Lemony Snicket

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. — Arthur Rimbaud

all that he has, and he will sing a different tune!" (1:10-11, paraphrased). — Lee A. Schott