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Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of "stand up and say your rightful piece" contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call "no insight".Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to "bite my ass!
— Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and ingenious pattern in which every phenomenon I saw was capable of evoking a memory which unleashed small landslides of feeling in me, some with a known source, others without. The people I encountered came from towns I had been to, they knew other people I had met, it was a network, and it was a tight mesh. But when I moved to Stockholm this flaring up of memories became rarer and rarer, and one day it ceased altogether. That is, I could still remember; what happened was that the memories no longer stirred anything in me. No longing, no wish to return, nothing. Just the memory, and a barely perceptible hint of an aversion to anything that was connected with it.
— Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book One
A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —
— Joyce Carol Oates
Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion. How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!-She saw Lord Orville at a ball,-and he was the most amiable of men! -She met him again at another,-and he had every virtue under Heaven!
— Fanny Burney, Evelina
Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.
— Glenn A. Maltais
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The heaviest thing is an empty heart.
— Kathy Katona McIntosh
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate
— Alan Brien
I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' —Steve Jobs
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Love is about filling up the space, not making more holes.
— Sara San Angelo, Drift
Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.
— Mort Herman
Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.
— The Mad Hatter
A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.
— Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
What you are to me is the guy that I’ve been madly in love with since sixth grade. You’re the guy I think about every night when I’m in bed by myself. You’re the one who doesn’t want me but insists on keeping me tied so close that I can’t have anyone else, who keeps one hand on my collar and the other hand up his girlfriend’s skirt. And I can’t do it anymore!” ~ Jordy
— Eli Easton, Superhero
Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.
— Dan Krokos, The Planet Thieves
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
— John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of
...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one
— Joe Ambercrombie
You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces
— Joe Ambercrombie
As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary France. That was just a veneer, an illusion. Rather, it was our desperate inability to lead ordinary lives with ordinary people anywhere--ordinary loves, ordinary homes, ordinary careers, watching ordinary television, eating ordinary meals, with ordinary friends--even ordinary friends we didn't have, or couldn't keep.
— André Aciman, Harvard Square
Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.
— Avi, Bright Shadow
*And to keep her immune system strong she followed Dr. Goodhue's advice to abstain from alcohol, get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and consume a nourishing diet, low in salt. Page 144"Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.". Page 204"I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death ... Is the true measure of the Divine within us." . . . "I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.". Page 307**"With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.". Page 372**my favorite!
— Alan Brennert
I hand over a lot of things when I'm home. Mom tells me she doesn't like my shirt I want to buy, and I hand it over. Not the shirt itself, but my wish for that shirt. I want to watch one television show and she wants to watch another one -I hand that over too. It's easier that way. I even hand over my toenails when she asks. But I think sometimes you need to put a thing in a box -even if the box is inside your head -and store it away for yourself.
— Gin Phillips, The Hidden Summer
I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim.
— kent Ian N. Cny
And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.
— Yann Martel
My dear Copperfield,” he replied. “To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence,” said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, “the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.
— kent Ian N. Cny
In space you don't stop.
— Christopher Carosa
Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in naming things, you could prevent them from happening.
— Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.
— Marlene Hansen
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
— Charlie Chaplin
Better foolish and honest than clever and false.
— Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter
For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.
— Kevin Hearne, Hammered
...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery... I have seen you protect others, though they consider you to be weaker than they. I have seen a very few decent people, like the boy we took from the tower. I have seen women trade pleasure for coin to feed their children, and others do the same so that they could ignore their children while making themselves foolish with wines and powders. I have seen men who labor as long as the sun is up go home to wives who hold them in contempt for never being there. I have seen men beat and use those whom they should protect, even their own children. I have seen your kind place others of their own in slavery. I have seen them fighting to be free of the same. I have seen men of the law betray it, men who hate the law be kind. I have seen gentle defenders, sadistic healers, creators of beauty scorned while craftsmen of destruction are worshiped. Your Kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.
— Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury
Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.
— Elle Casey
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
— John Edgar Wideman
There’s nothing you could do to make me any more or less gay, Dad. It’s who I am.”“It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you." ~ Lucas' Father
— Madison  Parker, Play Me, I'm Yours
I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.
— Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs
— Steve Jobs
There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.
— Jack Vance, Emphyrio
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
— Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Kingdom of Gods
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
— Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1
But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form.
— Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1
That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel. But there's no way to do that. In order to believe in a thing you've got to carry it with you. You can't carry the Earth, or a man, in your pocket. I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so I can believe in them. How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing in something terribly physical to prove something. I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in them.
— Ray Bradbury
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It’s called a lobotomy.
— Kathryn Schultz
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
— Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1
Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness"; and the absence of this in the character of Marcius made all his great actions and noble qualities unacceptable to those whom they benifited: pride, and self-will, the consort, as Plato calls it, of solitude, made him insufferable. With the skill which Alcibiades, on the contrary, possessed to treat every one in the way most agreeable to him, we cannot wonder that all his successes were attended with the most exuberant favour and honour; his very errors, at time, being accompanied by something of grace and felicity. And so in spite of great and frequent hurt that he had done the city, he was repeatedly appointed to office and command; while Coriolanus stood in vain for a place which his great services had made his due. The one, in spite of the harm he occasioned, could not make himself hated, nor the other, with all the admiration he attracted, succeed in being beloved by his countrymen.
— Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1
Stuff is not enough.
— Lanchester
Where would we be without the success of our mothers?
— Edna Stewart, The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
— C. JoyBell C.
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
— Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism
They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.
— Jim Barksdale
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.
— Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Ninjas don't wish upon a star, they throw them.
— Jarius Raphel
Happiness doesn't just flow from success
—  it actually causes it.
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I just wanna say nothing is permanent in this world, only change
— Jayson Engay
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
— Fred Allen
Presumptions macerate mind.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.
— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
There is no rule in this universe,which could rule this mighty Creation of that almighty Creator and that's why exceptions are always there.
— Kumar Rajgeet
The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.
— Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.
— Randy S. Woodley
The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods
— Gordon Beeming
Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living
— Jeffrey Archer, Cometh the Hour
Expect the worst and you won't be surprised
— Cate Holahan, Lies She Told
One day Your dog is going to safe your life, that's a fact.
— Deyth Banger
People tell me how do they want you.. and I JUST DO STUFF... I JUST DO IT... THAT'S A FACT!
— Deyth Banger, Afraid - Part 2
Worry, fear, doom, and gloom are all an absolute waste of energy ' ~ Ramie
— Tim Bauerschmidt, Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
The fact that you don’t realize how wonderful you are only makes you more wonderful.
— Scott Stabile
What you know is what you share
— Sunday Adelaja
What you reject cannot be effective for you
— Sunday Adelaja
For everything you embrace, there is a consequence
— Sunday Adelaja
He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.
— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Mhm, yeah it happen that's a fact... is it matter of time or not!?
— Deyth Banger, 4 Hours
Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it
— Jeff Kinney, Double Down
Debate... as much you go and debate... you will spend more than 1 hour to shake his opinion and few more hours to make him to change his opinion. (I Know the result... I know the fact - So what next?)
— Deyth Banger
Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.
— John Day
WHY is the word which changed the world
— Chandu Mukesh
No literally the only thing that's stopping us from getting married is the fact that we haven't 'met yet
— Troye Sivan
So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion. ...''Simple,' I said. 'Take the major British or American newspapers. If they report, say, a fire or a car accident, then obviously they can't indulge in saying what they think. And so they introduce into the piece, in quotation marks, the statements of a witness, a man in the street, someone who represents public opinion. Those statements, once put in quotes, become facts - in other words, it's a fact that that person expressed that opinion. But it might be assumed that the journalist has only quoted someone who thinks like him. So there will be two conflicting statements to show, as a fact, that there are varying opinions on a particular issue, and the newspaper is taking account of this irrefutable fact. The trick lies in quoting first a trivial opinion and then another opinion that is more respectable, and more closely reflects the journalist's view. In this way, readers are under the impression that they are being informed about two facts, but they're persuaded to accept just one view as being more convincing.
— Umberto Eco, Numero zero
Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact!
— Deyth Banger
People a lot of times say that they live one life, say that we all live one... no you are in mistake so farI can say that 10 games I have played in which I have died and reborn, then 197 books I have read, 6 more are waiting to be finished, 197 books = 197 lifes, so far!407 films = 407 lifes so far 197 + 407 equal 604... Every dramatical moment in which you have survive like car crash or others such type are equal +1 life... so far it looks like I have lived a lot of. Every Year in the tree branch with the branch...
— Deyth Banger
Isn't it strange??When you don't have something you want more and more even when you see it on the TV for example the the drug from the Limitless... you want it don't ya??A drug which makes your the smartest person on the earth... A drug which helps you understand fast everything... you can read in about 1500 books in a year... isn't it crazy... it will be awesome to have this drug... but it's not possible unfortunately... as for now...let's go in the real world shall we?What happens when you want something... let's take it that you get it... you want more and more and more... when you have from something which is like candy like 1000 in one place... somehow a limit comes... it comes the moment when you can't eat anymore - Isn't it interesting this fact?
— Deyth Banger
In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)
— Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
The best questions to ask a killer or ask yourself after an event done by a killer is...Why he did it...How he was trapped in this...Did somebody put him there.......
— Deyth Banger
We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tomorrow you won't be here!
— Deyth Banger
I wanna to ask that fat and glassy guy... Famous as GreenHollyWood, first of all (HELLO (I wanna and gonna be polite!)...AS second, what are you trying to show us?To be stupid and so far the doors are open for stupidity or to show us what's not right... so far you aren't preparing us for the world. The world is beyond your imagination and your thoughts, sounds, sad (but that's a fact), facts are sad!?
— Deyth Banger
Yeah I am stupid, as a wiseman I don't think I am a clever, but as far I see stupid people count themselves as smart and clever.
— Deyth Banger
You want a fact???...I'm bad at math but good at chess, I beat the best guy on chess... so you make your own conclusions!
— Deyth Banger
You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.
— Rose Wilder Lane
How do I read so many books?Let's keep it as a secret!How do I know so much?Okay, this I will reveal, I have curiosity most people say that cats die from curiosity, but I like that fact... I'm curious and from it I know a lot of!
— Deyth Banger
Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A lot of people are lost 2016 famous and non famous, relative and friends. A lot of people have also been lost in 2014 it's a fact!
— Deyth Banger
Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
As a matter of fact, confrontation could be a seed of peace.
— Sunday Adelaja
But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that there's, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of your great-great-great-grandparents married first cousin.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
My concern is not the fact that other people don’t understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing
— Sunday Adelaja
As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.
— Sunday Adelaja
Everything that we have in actual fact does not belong to us, but to God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.
— Phumi Ngwane
Young men think old men fools
—  old men know young men to be so.
If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too simple to be taken too serious for me. ‪#‎MyDefinition‬
— Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
Truth is a fact we fall in love with
— Anonymous
The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.
— Sameh Elsayed
The greatest obstacle is occur in my life due to reluctance
— MaranMani
It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
— Benjamin DeHaven, Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo
We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
— Walter Kirn, Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.
Misunderstood some say. Perhaps it’s the perception that needs examining!
— Annette Whitaker-Moss
Math has never made any sense to me.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.
— Dorien Kelly, The Last Bride in Ballymuir
Love does not blind and it can't
—  only those lovers sometimes do blind.
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
— Kiera Cass, The Elite
Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
— Saahil Prem
But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!
— Shanai Campbell
It’s okay to be sad when you mess up, but don’t dwell for too long. The mistake has already been made, and you can’t erase the fact that it happened. You can either learn from it or mope about it.The choice is yours, but remember, we are only human; we were born to make mistakes. Simply put, if you have never made a mistake in your life, then thatmeans that you have never taken a risk. Taking risks means that you go outside ofyour comfort zone – that you go outside of your boundaries. The most successful people are the ones who are not afraid to give it their all and possibly humiliate themselves greatly in front of others. It’s like that one saying, ‘The personwho asks a question is a fool for five minutes, but the person who never asks and remains silent is a fool forever.’ You choose the way you want to live your life.
— Sunita
Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers.
— Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace Trevelyan-Grey to Christian Grey
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..the worst part is we can't say who is who
— Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
— William James
A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.
— Jarius Raphel
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now
— PLL.
You are the books you read!!!
— Ebimoboere Boleigha, My Night Version and other Poems
Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Don't say what you think
— Thomas Matlhako
Here lies the challenge in finding good salespeople. You need excellent empathizers who aren't so empathetic they can't close a sale. And you need people with strong ego needs who can still take a moment to figure out what another person wants. They must be aggressive enough to close, but not so aggressive they put people off. Too much empathy and you'll be a nice guy finishing last. Too much ego drive and you'll be scorching earth everywhere you go. Not enough of either and you shouldn't be in sales at all. It's a miracle anyone can do this job.
— Philip Delves Broughton, The Art of the Sale
Monkeys can rip your face off.
— Jennifer Neves
REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT"..
— VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA
Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
— Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
— F.W. Boreham
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
— James Patterson, The Christmas Wedding
Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.
— Paula Heller Garland
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
— J. Michael Straczynski
It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
If you’re always asking what if you made another decision, you will never be happy with the decisions you have made. Every decision in your life has been the right one at the time to allow you to get to this point in your life. The only decisions you can change are your decisions in the future.
— Avina Celeste
The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.
— Toni Sorenson
And so I would ask you if you would do me the honor of becoming my wife?" As he spoke, she saw him glance over her shoulder, looking at the clock that stood in the corner. As though he had another appointment after this one. The one where he decided her fate.Unless she decided it for herself. The emotion she'd felt on recognizing Lord Alexander in that ballroom rushed over her, the unfamiliar feelings of want and dissatisfaction and wishing she could just be herself, just do something that wasn't related to who she was- she wanted to stand up and demand that Lord Carson, that anyone see her as Eleanor, the pun-loving, adventurous woman who adored Italian.Not a female to be bartered from one family to another.
— Megan Frampton, Lady Be Bad
When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any other; they'll be all alike in the groundwork; 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.
— Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
The decision can’t alone be mine,While the chalice is still full of wine
— Rahim Haider
To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision
— Sunday Adelaja
Where was Sam?It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was this how he’d been feeling since the beginning? All eyes on him? Everyone waiting for a decision? Even as people doubted and criticized and attacked?She wanted to be sick. She had been there for so much of it. But she hadn’t been the one. She hadn’t been the one making those choices.And now…she was.“I don’t know what to do,” Astrid said. “I don’t know.
— Michael  Grant, Lies
It is batter to make everyday decision based on what the Lord thinks and what the Word says
— Sunday Adelaja
Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.
— Pearl Zhu, Decision Master: The Art and Science of Decision Making
When one is not able to take a decision out of many alternatives, the mind unconsciouslydivides into many parts – sometimes as many as the alternatives.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
I shake my head. “I know,” I reply. “You are searching for her too.”We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn’t look at me. I remind him too much of her.“I’m sorry,” I whisper, after a long pause.“Don’t be.” A small, sad smile touches his lips. “She chose it.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Let go of your grudges. Let the bitterness die tonight. Make a decision today that it’s time to move on. And begin again. New, this time. Never forget that what has passed you by was never meant to befall you. And what has befallen you, was never meant to pass you by. Know that sometimes Allah withholds from you, in order to give you something better. Keep your heart focused on Him, and He will take care of the rest. And remember: you will stumble, but that’s part of the path. Keep going. Keep rising, and refuse to give up.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Serpentining" means trying to control a situation, backing out of it, pretending it's not happening, or maybe even pretending that you don't care. We use it to dodge conflict, discomfort, possible confrontation, the potential for shame or hurt, and/or criticism (self- or other-inflicted). Serpentining can lead to hiding out, pretending, avoidance, procrastination, rationalizing, blaming, and lying.I have a tendency to want to serpentine when I feel vulnerable. If I have to make a difficult call, I'll try to script both sides of it. I'll convince myself that I should wait, I'll draft an e-mail while telling myself that it's better in writing, and I'll think of a million other things to do. I'll emotionally run back and forth until I'm exhausted.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
when are you going to take a real decision ?We sometimes say Amen to anything that come in our way, but the real question is that: are you really taking account of what you are hearing ? Or what you are reading ? What is the essence of you saying Amen when someone is sending you a devotional message or the word of God if you don't really care about living a true life worthy of The Gospel ? God should have mercy in us for this gospel isn't a joke. If you see someone sending you messages about God, don't think the person does it for doing sake, no brother, no sister. Consider it for this messages will rather save you or judge one day! Shalom God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision.
— Sunday Adelaja
Taking decision and acting out our decisions leads to increase
— Sunday Adelaja
But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.
— Sara Keddar
The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.
— Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
The law of getting results says
—  never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment.
You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
— Judith McNaught
Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.
— Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain
Following your heart is the best decision you will ever make.
— Jennifer Lovering
Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Following your heart is the best decision you will ever make".
— Jennifer Lovering
Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.
— Richie Norton
I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can’t fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.
— Steve Maraboli
Make your decisions like a rock & live your life like a flow of water
— Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
He did not want to fail, when the Bee Master had trusted him with the home and the possessions and the occupation that were all he had of his very own, and he did not know that as the storm drew nearer, as the clouds grew blacker, as the heat waves resolved themselves into definite flashes of lightning, as the night closed down black as velvet around him, he did not realize that his moral and mental forces were rising with the tide of the storm, that all the remnants of manhood left in his shaken body were gathering together for some sort of culmination, just as presently the storm would reach its height and then subside.
— Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees
You’ve got this job offer in Charlotte. I know. But if you want, that’s something we can figure out together. I made a commitment to Cameron, so I need to stay in Chicago until she’s back from maternity leave. But after that, I can—” “I didn’t take the job in Charlotte.” “Oh. Right.” He exhaled, trying to catch up to speed. “Well. You should know that I had at least two minutes left on that speech. Really quality stuff.” “Sorry. I just thought this might be a good time to mention that I love you, too.” She made a rolling gesture. “But, please—carry on.” He grinned. Sassy as ever.
— Julie James, Love Irresistibly
Making a decision is only the beginning of things
— Paulo Coelho
There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.
— Raheel Farooq
People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
How good it would be to make my own decisions
—  if only I knew how to.
Worst decision is when you have decided but still it doesn’t satisfy you in hell lot of ways and you long to go back in time to fix it. It is so expensive to afford a wrong decision.
— Shreya Gupta
Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.
— Edeet Ravel, Held
NEVER FALLOW THE DECISION OF UR HEART ,FOLLOW THE DECISION OF UR BRAIN BECAUSE EVEN HEART ITSELF IS NOT ON THE RIGHT POSITION
— Nishant Gupta
Just one single word of kindness builds bridges for the rest of the day.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Who wants to pluck roses must love their thorns.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Everything about you is how I wanna be
—  Your freedom comes naturally
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
I'm proud of you, Bliss," he said."Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in your blood. You freed them. You freed me.""But now I'm never going to see you again, am I?" she asked.Dylan smiled. "It's unlikely. But I never say never.'"I wish you wouldn't go. I'll miss you so much," Bliss said."I'll miss you too."Dylan put his hand up, and so did Bliss. But this time, instead of touching air, she felt his warm hand grasping her cold one. She looked at Allegra. Somehow, she knew her mother was making this happen. Dylan leaned down, and she could feel his lips, soft and inviting, gently kissing hers. Then Dylan was gone. But Bliss did not feel anguished. She felt at peace. Dylan was not broken and incomplete anymore. He was whole.
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
— Erasmus
Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.
— Ru Freeman, A Disobedient Girl
Pull love closely around youand snuggle into its bliss.
— Hemat Malak, Your Angels Called and Left a Message: Divine Messages to Guide You to Happiness
And they all have pretty children,And the children go to school,And the children go to summer camp,And then to the university,Where they are put in boxesAnd they come out all the same.
— Malvina Reynolds
In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it depends on an infinite number of factors. Everything is in your unconscious mind. Why sex desire arose in you, why you raised a family, how greed and anger entered you, why you were dishonest, why you accumulated wealth, why you made enemies – you have no idea! You are just like a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by someone else. You imagine you are dancing, but in fact it is someone else who is making you dance.Look closely at your life and you will find that you are nothing more than a puppet. How can anything real happen in the life of a man who is not his own master, but merely a puppet?
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery