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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
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
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
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
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
When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire")
— Kresley Cole
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
Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a wordParaphrased — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
