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Corrigan crept up to the bar, cautiously moving around it. It looked like he was copying all the moves he’d seen in old cop movies and westerns, and doing it rather badly. He lowered the pistol. There was no one behind the bar. There was however, an open trapdoor. And that would mean the bounty hunter was - .“Don’t move!” Came Beck’s distant, slightly muffled, barked order. “My turn, I think!
— Christina Engela, Black Sunrise
Do you think about making love with me?"I lie awake most nights, fantasizing about sleeping next to her ... loving her. "Right now, muneca, makin' love to you is the only thing on my mind.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.
— Steven Magee
The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think
—  it's that he desperately cares what people think.
I find talking difficult as my brain goes much faster than I can say the words. So most of the time my sentences are all jumbled up. That's why I have a collection of phrases I've stored and mostly just use those instead.
— TinaJ. Richardson
Think of someone you care about and send loving thoughts in the present moment.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy, What You Seek Is Seeking You
You will have a peace of mind when you tell the truth and people think it's a lie, than we you tell a lie hoping that people will think it's the truth; because no matter how long it takes, either will be revealed.
— Gugu Mona
So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor.
— Deyth Banger
I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!
— Deyth Banger
Happiness ends with horror, you get terrified from the news don't ya?From the earthquakes, up to the danger stuff happen around the world... or you take it as happiness?So you hush it, don't ya?You make hush, and what??How it helps that, how can quietness or so far soundlessness will help you?How... how you know that god exist, how you know that all what you know is right?So far what I have read from the bible it sounds like humankind handwriting or let's say written by humankind. I doubt that gods it's like us, so far you just make him a guy who is like the guy on the street and wanting money, so far to get money you should provide some kind of service and you get the reward, without service there isn't money, it's matter of fact, not matter of moment.SO what, are you thinking about, share it... I will use it somehow, so far let's see what you have created and I will fix it. But be smart!
— Deyth Banger
You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.
— Moosa Rahat
Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.
— Deyth Banger
You can't think in nothing, nothing in reality is something.
— Deyth Banger
Don't think about don't thinking about it.
— Deyth Banger
When somebody say "Writer", I think about a person or people which have rank "Writer", when somebody ask me about president. I think about rank "president" - but in the end we understand thall people with this ranks are normal are like the people around the world poor or rich it doesn't matter!
— Deyth Banger
I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
To know as much as me, to know more you must start do stuff which make some scars on you.
— Deyth Banger
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
— Deyth Banger
Stop for moment... an event has happen (Think on this, how did it happen, why it happen? Is there something like sign from the universe for your question? How positive will use this which have happen (Focus on the positive not on the negative) )... continue... now stop on this quotes (Again to the same process), find out why, how and everything else... Use this process to all stuff, it's important to show that you think!
— Deyth Banger
Don't be an idiot - Idiots repeat as for my opinion to repeat is a useless process better check out one book it's not possible to learn everything and use everything it's insane. But you can do one thing, focus on the important stuff which have impressed you, use them - delete the book, make an essay and think on this few days you can think and check out some other books, videos and so on and so on... If you didn't get it, okay then listen again until you get it... It's imporntant to don't repeat and to understand it!
— Deyth Banger
God is Alien?? Think on this, it's sounds very interesting, is he....?? or he is not???
— Deyth Banger
So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?
— Brandon Sanderson, Sixth of the Dusk
Let's chew on the chewables!
— Pawan Mishra
I think irradiating pilots with WiFi radio frequency (RF) radiation is really going to hit about five years from now as 'Delayed Radiation Complications' show up. I am expecting to see increased airplane accidents & crashes for various reasons starting in 2020 onward.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Feel More, Think Less.
— Prakoso Ario
God, Lou. Don’t you think I want you to have what you want?”“You’re my sister. You’re supposed to want those things for me.”“You can’t have it both ways, Lou. When things get bad, you can’t call me—which I’m gladabout, I am!—you can’t do that and then imply I don’t give a shit about you.”“That’s what I used to think.
— Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere
There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.
— Steven Magee
As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending.
— Sunday Adelaja
Think for yourself at all times.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.
— George Orwell
Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.
— Craig Groeschel, The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink,owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.
— Piet Hein
Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
— Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.
— Orrin Woodward
Common sense speaks clearly...if you listen
— Phil DuPont
Think before you speak…… think before you don’t.
— Sameh Elsayed
You never think it’s going to happen to you, do you?
— Sarah Lotz, The Three
Think, talk, and walk like you matter.
What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us think, let us loveJust for a day, just for a nightLet us find peace and happinessDeep in our heart with spiritual light.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness absolutely depends on how you think.
— Debasish Mridha
Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.
— Debasish Mridha
Think larger. Redraw what is possible.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Calm down, Think different, Find your way ...
— Arash Pakravesh, Love Story
Keep up with the world. There's changes everyday so if you don't think of what to do today, you have to think of what to do tomorrow.
— Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
I think I must be bleeding. I think, if I’m thinking, I must be alive. I think, my arms must be here somewhere, I can feel them under the concrete. I think, what am I holding, what am I lying on top of?
— Joakim Zander, The Swimmer
The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
— Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection
I think, therefore I am... confused.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
When you think about a person or object most of the times while you are awake, it is either obsession or it is love.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Catie Conrad, just because we think we deserve something, it doesn't mean God is going to allow it to happen in the snap of a finger.
— Angie Spady, Catie Conrad: Faith, Friendship and Fashion Disasters
It is good to think; but to think in a right way, that is great!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Just think and the answers are endless, who am I? Where am from? where will I go?........
— Difin Davis
I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.
— Michael Davi
Do not worry about winning or losing
—  think of what you will gain.
The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts
—  the average person either thinks or acts
To think outside the box, first you need to know what YOU & OTHERS are thinking inside.
— Yuikan Shirik
If you can't even change the way you read.How can you change the way you think..
— Umang joshi
Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
— Julian Assange
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.
— from a letter in the Works of John Wesley
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
— Bill Clinton
Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Ending Syria's Occupation Of Lebanon: The U.S. Role
Life becomes the way it is lived
—  and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
How many geniuses are we putting to sleep today and where would our world be now, if the age of pill popping, mind numbing control existed during the times of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Einstein?
— L.M. Fields
Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.
— John Chaffee, The Thinker's Way
When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.
— John Chaffee, The Thinker's Way
I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.
— Jacques Lacan
Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.
— Pyreglide
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
— Albert Camus
I don’t care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.
— Ida Løkås
These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption
If you lose a man because you thought the best but were all wrong, then that's his fault. If you lose him because you thought the very worst and were wrong, then that's yours. And there's nothing so sad as missing out on love for lack of a little faith.
— Jennifer Blake, The Rent-A-Groom
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.
— Michael Haneke
A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
It's always advisable to cut potential losses in the early stages.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
What you focus upon for the future has potential to transpire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There are potential opportunities for everyone to expand consciousness.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Variability has potential to create confusion.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.
— Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
Continuously rambling thoughts disrupt the potential for positive thinking.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Avoid becoming entrapped by the mundane, pursue the best potential outcome for any situation.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Avoid chasing after the never ending deluge of potential trinkets.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
He who unlocks his greatest potential will reap his greatest treasures.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Men are like caterpillars; their potential to soar lies not on the outside, but within.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
quality input determines a quality output and feedback.
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Your greatest challenges bring out your greatest potential.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your highest potential is in your highest love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We must reach out for our full potential. The potential lies in our inner strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.
— Auliq Ice
No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.
— Auliq Ice
There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.
— Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.
— Auliq Ice
Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.
— Auliq Ice
It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.
— Auliq Ice
Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.
— Auliq Ice
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
— Audrey Hepburn
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
— Robert Frost
The earth laughs in flowers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
— Maya Angelou
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.
— George Gordon Byron
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
— Mark Twain
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
— W.H. Auden
Laughter is America's most important export.
— Walt Disney Company
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
— Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache & Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-
— Brian Andreas
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
— Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
— Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Some sleepers have intelligent faces even in sleep, while other faces, even intelligent ones, become very stupid in sleep and therefore ridiculous. I don't know what makes that happen; I only want to say that a laughing man, like a sleeping one, most often knows nothing about his face. A great many people don't know how to laugh at all. However, there's nothing to know here: it's a gift, and it can't be fabricated. It can only be fabricated by re-educating oneself, developing oneself for the better, and overcoming the bad instincts of one's character; then the laughter of such a person might quite possibly change for the better. A man can give himself away completely by his laughter, so that you suddenly learn all of his innermost secrets. Even indisputably intelligent laughter is sometimes repulsive. Laughter calls first of all for sincerity, and where does one find sincerity? Laughter calls for lack of spite, but people most often laugh spitefully. Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth. A man's mirth is a feature that gives away the whole man, from head to foot. Someone's character won't be cracked for a long time, then the man bursts out laughing somehow quite sincerely, and his whole character suddenly opens up as if on the flat of your hand. Only a man of the loftiest and happiest development knows how to be mirthful infectiously, that is, irresistibly and goodheartedly. I'm not speaking of his mental development, but of his character, of the whole man. And so, if you want to discern a man and know his soul, you must look, not at how he keeps silent, or how he speaks, or how he weeps, or even how he is stirred by the noblest ideas, but you had better look at him when he laughs. If a man has a good laugh, it means he's a good man. Note at the same time all the nuances: for instance, a man's laughter must in no case seem stupid to you, however merry and simplehearted it may be. The moment you notice the slightest trace of stupidity in someone's laughter, it undoubtedly means that the man is of limited intelligence, though he may do nothing but pour out ideas. Or if his laughter isn't stupid, but the man himself, when he laughs, for some reason suddenly seems ridiculous to you, even just slightly—know, then, that the man has no real sense of dignity, not fully in any case. Or finally, if his laughter is infectious, but for some reason still seems banal to you, know, then, that the man's nature is on the banal side as well, and all the noble and lofty that you noticed in him before is either deliberately affected or unconsciously borrowed, and later on the man is certain to change for the worse, to take up what's 'useful' and throw his noble ideas away without regret, as the errors and infatuations of youth.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
— Pat Conroy, Beach Music
...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
— Jean Houston
A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman, or any other of the many fine things we have in our treasure trove? Choose, but only one thing!" For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed the gods in this wise: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose one thing — that I may always have the laughs on my side." Not one god made answer, but all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my wish had been granted and thought that the gods knew how to express themselves with good taste: for it would surely have been inappropriate to answer gravely: your wish has been granted.
— Søren Kierkegaard
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live
— Andrea Levy, The Long Song
Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
If you can't laugh, you won't make it.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life.""Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes."Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
— P.C. Cast, Brighid's Quest
They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
— Toni Morrison, Jazz
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
— Toni Morrison, Sula
Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.
— Nicanor Parra, Emergency Poems
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
— John Green, Paper Towns
The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that "it’s a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal.
— V.S. Ramachandran, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
— Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch
When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.
— Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.
— Franny Billingsley, Chime
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.
— David Levithan, Marly's Ghost
Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.
— Edward McPherson, Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
— Hal Holbrook, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain
In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.
— Phil Callaway, Making Life Rich Without Any Money: Finding Joy in What Really Matters
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco. 
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
— James Carlos Blake, Handsome Harry
Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.
— Bryan R. Dennis, Isle of Stumps
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.
— Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy
She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
— Ken Scholes, Canticle
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.
— Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
We're all here for a spell
—  get all the good laughs you can.
They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly sane in telling her all this. And she was perfectly sane in listening to it and nodding and urging him to tell her more. It was the rest of the world that was-She doubled over as a wave of laughter hit her.Mulder looked at her and started laughing too. They stood there in the cemetery in the darkness and the drizzle, laughing their heads off.'You know we're crazy,' Scully finally said.'Of course we are,' Mulder gasped out.
— Les Martin, X Marks the Spot
I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen when she's writing. The way she laughs. The way she smiles. The way she's kind. The way she cares. The way she listens. Just everything. She's just incredible. I've never met anyone quite like her before.
— Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student
We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.
— Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...
— Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when you think about them. It’s funny and you don’t scream, as long as it’s not you. If it’s somebody else you can laugh.
— Stephen King
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
— Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.
— Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.
— Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
— Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.
— Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
she loves to feel the sun on her skin the winter in her eyelashes and to hear his laughter all day long.
— Gwen Calvo
All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.
— Evgeny Zamjatin, We
Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.
— Marty Rubin
For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever.
— Félix J. Palma, The Map of the Sky
The Universe will give us love, happiness, merriment and laughter if we give others love, happiness, merriment and laughter!
— Avijeet Das
In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.
— Kevin  Hart, I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
— Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
I love to laugh. Especially in times of trouble and sadness. It helps us get through the hard times of life and is also an important part of all our relationships. Laughter is a gift from God that opens our hearts. Laughing heals our hearts and brings us together.
— Eileen Anglin
They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.
— Faiqa Mansab, THIS House of Clay and Water
There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.
— Gordon R. Dickson, Soldier, Ask Not
My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.
— Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
By the way, you haven’t seen an alien around here, have you? About six foot eight with a face like a cross between a boar and an upturned crab. Probably carrying a spear and a bag full of severed heads.’ Parker shrugged. ‘I dunno. It gets busy here.’ ‘He’s got quite an unusual laugh.’ ‘Oh, that bloke? He’s down the bottom of the ramp. You know him, then?
— Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith
Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively.
— Balroop Singh
Laughing and crying are closely related. Smiling and grimacing both involve a person showing their teeth as does laughing and growling. Crying and laughing always represents the expression of actual emotion.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically.
— Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,
— Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
Laughter is much better than anger.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.
— Lene Fogelberg, Beautiful Affliction
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.
— Audrey Hepburn
—I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.—That went by just a little fast, Torl.—It’s terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man’s foot when he’s wearing boots, commander.
— David Eddings, The Treasured One
...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn’t help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn’t felt like that in a long while.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time.
— John Steinbeck
Days are made to be filled with laughter.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
I know, you were much closer to the painter than any of us. In spite of that, your lips, too, will want to curl up into a smile. There are levels of tragedy whose mind-numbing properties can only be checked by laughter, and what story does not contain an inkling of the grotesque? When we Germans will have learnt to laugh like the Gauls, we will truly be the rulers of this earth; even more so than before, one might add.""John Hamilton Llewellyn's End
— Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales
We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.
— Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Live happy and enjoy your journey. Life is too short to not enjoy the ride ! Perspective really matters. Worry never solves any problems. Have belly laughs and chuckles instead 
— Angie karan
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What,' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?
— N.D. Wilson, Empire of Bones
My mother’s laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.
— ~Peggy Toney Horton
Your laughter is louder than my personal demons' whispers.
— Oliver Tremble, Kink in the Rope: D/s Flash Fiction Erotica for the Positively Kinky
I dearly love a laugh.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them
—  but hidden behind a thin wall.
When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.
— Jonathan Goldstein, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
During the last ten years of his life my father gradually lost the power of speech. At first he simply had trouble calling up certain words or would say similar words instead and then immediately laugh at himself. In the end he had only a handful of words left, and all his attempts at saying anything more substantial resulted in one of the last sentences he could articulate: 'That's strange.'Whenever he said 'That's strange,' his eyes would express an infinite astonishment at knowing everything and being able to say nothing. Things lost their names and merged into a single, undifferentiated reality. I was the only one who by talking to him could temporarily transform that nameless infinity into the world of clearly named entities.
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I'm scared and overwhelmed and my mind is racing. But," she paused and looked at him. "You're here. You just gave me hope. You also just scared the blazes out of me. I'm no longer sure that I'm the most difficult person in this relationship.""I remain sure of it," Alain said."Did you just make a joke?" She pulled away a little and stared at him, smiling more like she usually did. "Are you making fun of me, Mage?"Alain couldn't remember how long it had been since he had laughed. The act was completely alien to Mages, to the training he had endured since he was a small child. But now he laughed, the sound rusty and halting, yet he knew it was a laugh, and it felt so good to be laughing and holding Mari that Alain wondered what Mage art or other promised reward could possibly be worth giving up such things.
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Laughter is like a little miracle we all experience everyday.
— Carmela Dutra
By going "ah" and "hah" they were able to lift the unrelenting pain of their dark, bestial days into something more recreational. It is only through the godly gift of humor that man endures the horror. What other faculty allows you to turn pain into triumph? Tears of sadness into tears of laughing too hard?
— Jonathan Goldstein, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
if you can’t make a joke at a time like this, what’s the point of living?
— Chloe Neill, Midnight Marked
We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn
— Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times
I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
I ask for a decreedooming my bitter enemies to laughteradvanced against them.
— John Berryman, The Dream Songs
You are incorrigible.” “I know.” She sighed happily. “All the shit we’ve been through—all the shit I’ve been through—and I can still make lascivious jokes with the best of them. That’s impressive, Merit. That’s character.
— Chloe Neill
Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.
— David Darson
There is little success where there is little laughter.
— Andrew Carnegie
Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
— Toni Morrison, Jazz
Readers of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.It is.But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare.
— Andrew  Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.
— Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.
— P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
— James     Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
Laughter is a tangible evidence of hope.
— Michael Jr.
Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.
— Julie Anne Long
Absurd laughter is a kind of protest against an absurd existence.
— Meng Wang
When I was younger, I use to laugh at my mom when she was silly. Now that I'm older, I find myself just as silly as her. Thanks mom, for teaching us that even as adults, it's OK to be fun and enjoy life laughing. I now get to teach my nephews and stepdaughter the same thing.
— April Mae Monterrosa
It takes us away from the world of strangersTo a new world of laughter With time the whirled churning deep insideAnd why does the smile fades, as age passes?
— Dr. Chitra Navada
For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.
— Julie Anne Long, A Notorious Countess Confesses
Always believe everyone because believing might one day be able to save you
— Aliyah Shah
I don't think I've ever heard you laugh. Ever. You face life like it's a warrior come to chop your head off, and you're just biding your time fretting until it does. Haven't you ever heard of the power of laughter?
— Noelle Crawford, Pinnacle of Glory
onceI heard her huskylaughter pour out likerain after a drought
— Tyrean Martinson, Light Reflections
When Ben came back to me, he said, "Why are you laying with your face in the sand?"I made sure all the laughter was out of me before I rolled over. "I think it helps sunburn." I said.
— Audrey Couloumbis, Lexie