c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
— Frederick Douglass
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
— Charles Bradlaugh
Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don’t believe in God. I don’t even think about it. It’s just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it’s he who makes miracles!
— Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A temple for an atheist and a hope of a single person to find a date are same. Meaningless but strong faith.It's like a single guy would marry a girl who would go to the temple with a hope and pray that she would find an atheist like her someday.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
It's a random universe. Shit happens. Good people get stage 4 cancer and dipshits win the lottery. There is no justice. Everything doesn't always come out square in the end. Life isn't some elegant math equation -- it's a Sergio Leone screenplay and everyone gets snuffed. Not all of us have to ante up for our portion of the tab. Some get to do the ol' dine 'n' dash.
— Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes
God made me an Atheist
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.
— John Rafferty
I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
Vexis listened, then shook her head, her eyes full of sorrow. ‘YOU are the fool! You cannot rob people of their beliefs and expect them to just accept it. Even now, I mourn the death of Avanti every day. Even though I now know she was never real. The idea of Avanti was real. Serving Avanti gave me a purpose, I felt she was guiding and encouraging me. Now I have nothing, I am reduced to simply “making it up as I go along”. I hate you Brael. I will never forgive you for what you did.’Brael took a deep breath. ‘You were always making it up as you went along. You just didn’t know it. People need to take responsibility for their actions. There is one person guiding me, and that is me. I will live as long as I can and I will try to leave this world a better place for my presence. That is enough purpose for all.
— Martyn Stanley, Rise of the Archmage
The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transﬁguring and inﬁnite.
— Bertrand Russell
An Atheist is a person who questions every kind of authority, and this is the thing that is important. Because if we can, without blinking an eye, question the ultimate authority, god - who must be obeyed, then we can question the authority of the state, we can question the authority of a university structure, we can question the authority of our employer, we can question anything. So I think the primary thing that an Atheist is, is a person who looks at an authoritarian idea, or an authority structure, and says to that authority structure: from whence do you derive your authority and why should I be obedient to you? It appears to me that if I have human intelligence that this is enough for me to try to challenge whatever you're doing.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.
— Christopher Hitchens
I am part of a minority that is deeply misunderstood. People have very confused ideas about us. Many are frightened of us. I've even heard it said that many people wouldn't want their daughters or sons to marry one of us, and I know of people who have been denied jobs or promotions because they share this trait with me. But being what I am does not make me bad; being what I am does not make me dangerous; being what I am does not mean I don't love, or hurt, or have a sense of humor. My name is Malclom Decter, and I'm here today to tell the whole world what I am. ... I am an atheist.
— Robert J. Sawyer
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
— atheist
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.
— Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Fear and confession for the fear ofunknown,business mind to fulfill greeds and unsatisfaction, limitedknowledge makes the religion
— er.teji
Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
— Samuel Butler
COMPASSIONThe religion of atheists
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
Maybe it’s us who are the psychosis of some massive, all-knowing globule of nebulous space junk.
— T. K. Decker
Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can be worse than saying nothing at all. For a non-believer, the words that are meant to console a religious person can do quite the opposite.
— David G. McAfee, Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer
I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?
— Vicki Covington, Bird of Paradise
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
— George William Foote, What Is Agnosticism
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.
— S.T. Joshi, Atheism: A Reader
If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I am an atheist and your cunts cannot change my mind.
— M.F. Moonzajer
You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth ,OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie
— er.teji
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not
—  your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
— John Fowles, The Magus
In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The God to whom I was introduced as a child was basically a Jewish one: male, fatherly, Anglo-European, bearded, angrily loving, judgmental, righteously indignant,mand frighteningly powerful, not to mention present everywhere and all-knowing. In trying to make sense of this God, man has continued to manufacture and manipulate images of this perceived deity. The images have changed over the centuries, based on the mood of the times. During kind times when harvests were abundant and peace reigned (admittedly rare in the ancient world), God was benevolent. When plpague and famine killed millions, God was portrayed as enraged and vengeful. To this day, this emotionally infantile God remains in power, a fear-based aberration produced by fevered imaginations, promoted by those who understand how such a deity can be used to gain and consolidate power over believers, and protected by flocks of billions who refuse to question their damning God for fear of their own damnation -- or out of an even greater immediate terror of social and cultural isolation. But I argue that it is PRECISELY this image of God -- an infantile, simplistic, ridiculous notion of the sublime power that underlies the world -- that is destroying civil religion, fueling the rage of the "angry atheist" movement, and pitting science against the spiritual at a time when we should be using every tool within reach to discover what it means to be human -- and divinely human at that.
— Carlton D. Pearson, God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us
I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.
— A.B. Potts
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
— Stephen Colbert
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
I'll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.
— Henry Rollins
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
— Coleman Cox
He said if you do what you have to do today, all the tomorrows have a way of working things out by themselves.
— Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
It is impossible to catch today
—  it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow
It will always be now. Still tomorrow will come. If we do our best now, tomorrow will be better.
— Brent M. Jones
Today is a gift to use wisely I can't save it or waste it. It is my choice. I am thankful for the day. Each day matters.
— Brent M. Jones
Today is the best time to do what you couldn't do yesterday, because tomorrow might be too late.
— Gift Gugu Mona
If you’ve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. I don’t have to tell you, that’s not what’s done. If advertisers lived by market principles then some enterprise, say, General Motors, would put on a brief announcement of their products and their properties, along with comments by Consumer Reports magazine so you could make a judgment about it.That’s not what an ad for a car is—an ad for a car is a football hero, an actress, the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something. If you’ve ever turned on your television set, you know that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to try to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices—that’s what advertising is.
— Noam Chomsky, Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Good Morning Beautiful souls.Guide us for a new week rolls in and today's full of possibilities for OK MONDAY mood
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
I’ve been thinking a lot about legacies lately. Life seems to be a waste without someone to share it with and even more so when there’s no one to benefit from your efforts when you’re gone. Sort of makes you want to throw your hands up in the air and stop working. Luckily, that feeling forces you to focus more on today… even if only to avoid being depressed while thinking about an empty, distant tomorrow. What can I do today to enrich others? What can I share with the people I encounter today?
— LaShawnda Jones
Build your life not on what you see today but on the things of tomorrow
— Sunday Adelaja
Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow
— Sunday Adelaja
If what you do TODAY will define your TOMORROW, then that means the FUTURE is NOW.
— Oscar Bimpong
Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed
— Sunday Adelaja
Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.
— Ken Poirot
Today I and one friend we have lost in the shopping center, loads of laugh enjoy and that's what suppose to be interesting... Not something which makes your day horrible.
— Deyth Banger
If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Today it happen this, tomorrow who knows what will happen??
— Deyth Banger
Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.
— Denis Waitley, The Psychology of Winning
Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life
—  what melody will you compose today?
But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.
— Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella
Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility
— Sunday Adelaja
- What day is it?- It's today, - squeaked Piglet.- My favorite day, - said Pooh. ("Winnie-the Pooh", A.A. Milne)
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me
— Parviz Owsia
Because today after all, is all we knew.
— James Patterson, First Love
Can u exercise today? Not tomorrow or the next day!
— Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along
The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today’s a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!
— Steve Maraboli
The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!
— Steve Maraboli
As far as everyone is concerned, I'm in love with you today and tomorrow.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Redemption
I believe that tomorrow never exist, until we make a day called today.
— Sakin Maharjan
After to-day there is endless to-morrow but to-day is to-day.don't compare it with other day.
— Kishore Bansal
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
— William Glasser
Today is the day you've been waiting for.
— Marty Rubin
Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.
— Ryan Lilly
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Success is when you can differentiate between Today and Tomorrow.
— Sakin Maharjan
Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA
— Diana Hollingsworth Gessler, Very California: Travels Through the Golden State
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
— Medeia Sharif, Bestest. Ramadan. Ever.
For to-day I take or give
—  For to-day I drink and live
You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.
— Stella Newman, Leftovers
Today is blessed gift.Today is your day.Be grateful for today.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.
— William Bruck 19992014
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
— Anonymous bumper sticker
What day is it,?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
— A.A. Milne
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings
What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.
— A.A. Milne
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors
— set today’s rhythm with your heart-drum
There is no tomorrow..it is always today. Tomorrow is the fleeting and minute distance..between hope & once more..once again!
— Victoria June
Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Every TODAY has a better version, called TOMORROW.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
— J.K. Rowling
Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.
— Mik Everett, Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand
Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
— Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.
— Anthony Liccione
God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
— Dillon Burroughs, Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers
I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.
— Steven Herrick, A Place Like This
Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
— Sri Chinmoy, Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
Failure is not the end of the road, its a stepping stone to do better!
— Hopal Green
Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.
— Dr. Kevin Leman
​Failure is the Shoe that I Wear. I can't Walk a Step without it.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.
— Jeff Loveness, Groot
Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Failure is the new success.
— Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity-were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in the later years.
— Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Failure is allowing your fears to make the best of you.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do anything that you want to do other than what you are required to do...success will surely go to others.
— Amit Abraham
The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Success is a blessing
— failure is a lesson.
Rather than always impose your will,allow men to learn from their mistakes.Great failures make great teachers;success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear mediocrity,not failure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.
— Auliq Ice
Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.
— Auliq Ice
If You Fail Don't Fail To Try Again, You Success Maybe in Your Next Trials.
— Amicable Soda
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
— G.K. Chesterton
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
No holidays, no country.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.
— Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Government is a ruling structured thuggery.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
you might be a readneck 
— Melissa Ball
Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.
— Santosh Kalwar
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic
—  in the country it is a form of entertainment.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy
— Charmaine J Forde
After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.
— Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
Aye. 'Tis a free country."Monq had come to check on Elora just as she asked that question."Well, that kind of has to be qualified," he interjected. "You can't come or go without a passport. You can't drive without a driver's license, registration, auto insurance and proof that your vehicle is up to code. You can't work or even get health care without a social security number. You have to pay taxes on everything including air and water. The closest distance between point A and B may involve paying a road toll. There are over three hundred thousand federal laws. You have to educate your children according to legal standards set by someone that's not you. There are laws about who can marry whom. But other than a few more such trivialities, it's a free country.
— Victoria Danann, Vampire Hunter
My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.
— Viktor Tatarczuk
In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
— Meia Geddes, Love Letters to the World
Export of terror by any country (eventho a low cost operation) always undermines strategic balance.
— Ramesh Lohia
We are responsible for our country before God
— Sunday Adelaja
We have to be active if we want to see revival and the glory of God in our country
— Sunday Adelaja
We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed
— Sunday Adelaja
Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country
— Sunday Adelaja
Those born of God are called to reform their country, for that reason Christians need to have a victorious mentality
— Sunday Adelaja
You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality
— Sunday Adelaja
It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.
— Sunday Adelaja
We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders.
— Sunday Adelaja
That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.
— Alecia Whitaker, Wildflower
His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.
— Alecia Whitaker, Wildflower
In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.
— Alecia Whitaker, Wildflower
Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!
— David       Cook, Heart of Oak
South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.
— Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
I am not Nigerian because I was born in Nigeria but because Nigeria was born in me.
— Saminu Kanti
Events went on to show that it is not by chance that a prime minister reaches such lofty heights and that, as the infallible wisdom of nations has demonstrated time and time again, each country gets the government it deserves, although it must be said that while it is true to say that prime ministers, for good or ill, are not all the same, it is no less true to say, are all countries.
— José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
My country can never be taken away from me now
—  I'd happily given it away.
What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
— Ruta Sepetys
In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
I am proud to be Nepali.
— nepali,love,peace,country
If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner.
— Sunday Adelaja
It was a country life, a precious existence.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.
— Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da
Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different.How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst
— Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer
— Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country
This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.
— Peter Ombedha
Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don’t have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!
— Avi
People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.
— J.L. Carr
It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the green and elastic vigor of the young saplings; the noble form of the forest aisles, and the subdued light which penetrates their entangled boughs, combine to add to the impression; and the whole character of the scene is calculated to excite conservative feeling. The man who could remain a radical in a wood country is a disgrace to his species.
— John Ruskin
If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing
— John Buchan, The 39 Steps
A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.
— Cheryl Matthynssens, The Blackguard
Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.
— Rick Riordan, The Widower's Two-Step
It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
— Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
— Robert Frost
People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.
— Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home
If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.
— Nicholas Proffitt, The Embassy House
We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country
—  Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.
It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!
— Jean Webster
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at dawn. Pub brawls, rackety roadworks, mugged tourists, the badlands on a Saturday night - they all made sense, they were all part of the huge, dirty, torn social fabric. There was a war raging out there in the city and she was part of the fight, but the countryside unsettled her because she didn't know who the enemy was. She had always preferred North and South to Wuthering Heights. All that demented running around the moors, identifying yourself with the scenery, not a good role model for a woman.
— Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.
— Émile Zola, The Earth
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
— Plato, The Republic
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
— Oscar Wilde
I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
— Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
— Ayn Rand, We the Living
Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
SUNDAYThe day..I planned a lot but actually do nothing.
— Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
— Nelson Algren
I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.
— Patrick Branwell Brontë
I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.
— Ally Condie, Matched
I am nothing, and not even that.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.
— Milarepa
What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?'The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.
— Michel Houellebecq, Platform
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
— Edie brickell
Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.
— Alan Heathcock, Volt
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
— Hannah More
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")
— Conrad Aiken, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")
— Walter de la Mare, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
...then much, then little, then nothing.
— Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
— Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.
— Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away.
— Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
Absolutely Nothing" the next 22 miles the highway sign said. Of course it was wrong!
— Brent M. Jones
She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Nothing can come of nothing. There is no room in my world for nothing.
— Marty Rubin
We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.
— Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of a man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
— Samuel Beckett, Watt
Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure.
— Deyth Banger
Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
— T.S. Eliot
When you give everything, you have nothing to lose.
— Kate McGahan
Lucien kept rubbing at his temples as he ate, unusually silent, and I hid my smile as I asked him, “And where were you last night?”Lucien’s metal eye narrowed on me. “I’ll have you know that while you two were dancing with the spirits, I was stuck on border patrol.” Tamlin gave a pointed cough, and Lucien added, “With some company.” He gave me a sly grin. “Rumor has it you two didn’t come back until after dawn.”I glanced at Tamlin, biting my lip. I’d practically floated into my bedroom that morning. But Tamlin’s gaze now roved my face as if searching for any tinge of regret, of fear. Ridiculous.“You bit my neck on Fire Night,” I said under my breath. “If I can face you after that, a few kisses are nothing.”He braced his forearms on the table as he leaned closer to me. “Nothing?” His eyes flicked to my lips. Lucien shifted in his seat, muttering to the Cauldron to spare him, but I ignored him.“Nothing,” I repeated a bit distantly, watching Tamlin’s mouth move, so keenly aware of every movement he made, resenting the table between us. I could almost feel the warmth of his breath.“Are you sure?” he murmured, intent and hungry enough that I was glad I was sitting. He could have had me right there, on top of that table. I wanted his broad hands running over my bare skin, wanted his teeth scraping against my neck, wanted his mouth all over me.“I’m trying to eat,” Lucien said.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
— Jeffrey Fry
What is wrong with you?” Radu sounded on the verge of tears. “Why do you have to destroy everything good we have here?”“Because,” Lada said, voice flat with the sudden wave of exhaustion pulling her heavily to the ground. “We have nothing. Can you not see that?”“We have Mehmed!”Lada looked up. The stars were static, still and cold in the night, all the fire gone from the sky. “It is not enough,” she said.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
If you are God’s, there is nothing impossible for you
— Sunday Adelaja
I wanted to give you everything, to withhold nothing from you, but then one day there was nothing left to give.
— Kate McGahan
Nothing can compare with the time spent with God
— Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing more valuable in life than God
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing is Something That to All Isn't There
— Unknown
Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfect and 100% Accurate...
— Deyth Banger, Fakeness = Thoughts
Ninth Floorshe ran across the parquet slipped the flokati matcrashed the windownoshe stood at the window prism looked up at sky bruise nightspread hernoshe tilted dived swanning spinningtip-toed ink air broke fingers firstnoshe climbed the small gap the window gavehung her finger joints clotted the view with frightened breathfell ligament torn and sorrynoshe wandered to the glass hatch to watch tranquilised lights sputteringleaned too hard fell faster than a bottle of Jacknothis is how it was:drunk screaming she crashed the parquet with griefroared the ungiving window frames which gaveshe spangled spaghetti-like ribbon-voicedstreet lights crashed on herno.She did nothing.
— Karin Schimke
23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Just saying "I love you" can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it while they stab the person they say it to - some say it to the one holding the knife.
— Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
Nothing is scary... everything is a lesson... all is about getting in the perspective.
— Deyth Banger
Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
Overall is nothing... just nothing... overall = chaos... but looked from little near overall is little chaos by itself by it's own meaning.
— Deyth Banger
It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.
— Gift Gugu Mona
-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.
— Patti Smith, M Train
and nothing can be more captivating than the waves hitting the shore
— shivangi lavaniya
She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
I won't be Cheeky and hypocritical... I will be real or nothing!
— Deyth Banger
You can say nothing by saying everything. You can say everything by saying nothing.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen