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Mrs. Russell made us both sit down with a glass of milk. "And I have a special treat for you," she said. I'm not lying. She really said that. I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys', but it didn't help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Banana bread! And James said, "How about we have some jam with that?" and Mrs. Russell said, "Jam? Then you wouldn't be able to taste the bananas," and James said, "Ma, I hate bananas," and she said, "But I'm sure that Doug enjoys them," and I said, "I think I'm still full from lunch, so the milk's fine," and then Mrs. Russell picked up the plate with the banana bread on it, and you might not believe this, but she started to laugh and laugh a d laugh, until Mr. Russell came out to the kitchen to see what was so funny and she showed him the banana bread and he said, "I hate bananas," and we all started to laugh until Mrs. Russell said, "I hate bananas too," and you can imagine us all laughing until we were crying and finally Mrs. Russell took the banana bread outside to break it up for the birds-"Let's hope they like bananas"-and then I showed Mr. Russell Aaron Copland's Autobiography: Manuscript Edition, and he stopped laughing.
— Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
She gave him a double-birded salute, and he barked out a rusty laugh. I’m laughing. Me. When was the last time that had happened? He couldn’t remember. But she kept doing things to amuse him. Shock him, even. Like pulling out a sword and expressing a very real fear about zombies. Zombies.
— Gena Showalter, The One You Want
Oh, girl! He's got a big one,” the fortune teller exclaimed, her dark eyes briefly flickering up to Violet's face before returning back to the cards spread out in front of her. She paused for a moment as she studied them, her pointer finger tapping against her jaw. Finally, she added, “Just like a summer sausage, and I'm not talking about the snack-sized ones. And it's attached to a body that could put Dwayne Johnson to shame. What women could resist a package like that? I'd say the future is definitely going to be bright... at least for you.
— Rose Wynters, The Vampire's House of Pleasure: Part One
He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champagne bubbles would have sounded if they were capable of laughter.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.
— Raheel Farooq
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.
— Georges Bataille, Guilty
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats
Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats
She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.
— Paul Graham
Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men.
— Junot Díaz
Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked."That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.
— Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind
Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled. Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion. I do not mean that we could not laugh at a person who inspires us with pity, for instance, or even with affection, but in such a case we must, for the moment, put our affection out of court and impose silence upon our pity. In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter.
— Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.
— David Mitchell
To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact.
— H.L.  Stephens
If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.
— Marty Rubin
To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise
— David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
Laughter clears the atmosphere and it gives liberty to every soul.
— Euginia Herlihy
Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.
— Melissa Darnell, Crave
And it is in dying of laughter (Happyness) that we are born to eternal life
— Marco Gemaque
Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!!
— Monika Zands
He who laughs last laughs ... doesn't get it.
— Brian Spellman
His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.
— Emery Lord, Open Road Summer
God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!
— Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone
What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny.
— Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.' ... Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall - all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red Headed League
Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it.
— Richard Tillotson, Acts of God While on Vacation
The distance had been evaporated by humor
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]	– 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]	– 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.
— Richard Siken, Crush
Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
— Dean Cavanagh
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo
Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir
I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
— Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook
And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the street.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
— Cassandra    King, The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle
And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
If you can't laugh at yourself, don't worry others will…!
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.
— Amanda McCabe, Running from Scandal
Orlando had a Pinto, a car that hadn't been in existence for thirty-plus years. He still hadn't figured out why a strong, strapping werewolf would want one. Orlando said it was because he'd customized it. Painted pink with purple stripes, the younger male could often be found cruising up and down the streets of Wolf Town, with his terrible music blaring out of the windows. The car was a ticking time bomb. Already, more than one werewolf had offered to blow it up. Orlando better enjoy it, Connor doubted he would have it for very much longer.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Cowboy
The preacher released a pent-up breath as he sagged in relief. “Thank God he's gone.” His eyes narrowed at Alexander as he bit out, “Did you know that man had the nerve to lasso me while I was out in the woods?
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Cowboy
We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over a lifetime it all adds up. That's why we're here, William. We're a a part of him, who he is, just as he is a part of us. You still don't understand, do you?"I didn't. But as I stared at the man and he stared back at me, in my father's dream I remembered where we'd met before. "And what did my father do for you?" I asked him, and the old man smiled. "He made me laugh," he said.
— Daniel Wallace, Big Fish
Laughter IS the BEST medicine! It’s FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces stress, heals your body and relieves pain! It fights disease and cancer and strengthens the immune system! It eases your mind, it protects your heart and soothes your soul!
— Tanya Masse
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.
— Ernst Mach, History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy
I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Ian's eyes settled on him, his expression grim. He bypassed everything, coming to a stop in front of the nervous young male. “I want all of your medicines to relieve fever, including liquids and capsules. Plus, I want a thermometer, the best one you have, and make sure it's not rectal.” He narrowed his eyes at the wide-eyed clerk in front of him. “I don't do rectal, and I won't use anything that involves an ass.
— Rose Wynters, Voluptuous Vindication
Four laughs vibrate in harmony,WarmDeliciousReal.
— Stasia Ward Kehoe, Audition
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor
—  more precious than money
Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.
— S.R. Ford
Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.
— Wes Adamson
Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.
— Arnold Glasgow
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
— Yusuf Islam
Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.
— Mark Driscoll
It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.
— Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chair and were helpless. His head rolled from side to side. It was as though he were in the last stages of strychnine poisoning. But no sound came, nor did his mouth even open. Gradually the spasm grew weaker, and when the natural sand colour of his face had returned (for his corked-up laughter had turned it dark red) he began his smoking again in earnest.
— Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn’t squirm away, “Jesus. It’s like you said that directly to my balls.”She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.
— Debra Anastasia
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate." - , Return to Laughter (1954)
— Elenore Smith Bowen, Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.
— Wes Adamson
Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.
— Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.
— Leland Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
Anything that makes you laugh, giggle or smile.. Do it again..
— Himmilicious
Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.
— Dennis Vickers, Between the Shadow and the Soul
-Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows" -thump- "lumps of meat" -thump. His widened. "Give me milk" -thump- "warm and sweet."I stopped abruptly, pressing my lips together as I realized what I had just sung. The ridiculousness of it struck me forcibly and I knew I could not goon without laughing. We stared at each other,locked in a stalemate, his eyes brimming with laughter, his lips trembling. My chin quivered. Against my will, a sound burst from me. It was a very unladylike snort.-
— Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me.
— Brian Andreas
It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.
— George MacDonald
On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.
— Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
— Langston Hughes
Maturity,” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.
— Émile Zola, Nana
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.
— Timothy Hallinan, Breathing Water
Italians make you laugh and break your heart.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls
The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...
— C. JoyBell C.
But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.
— James      Martin, Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life
Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart.
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.
— Cherie Carter-Scott, If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul
John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.
— Ethel Russell-Ajisomo
They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it’s free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.
— Mindy Levy
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.
— Pablo Neruda
My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
— Rebecah McManus, Colliding Worlds
Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.
— Craig Ferguson
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
— Rosario Castellanos, A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama
There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.
— Shannon Dittemore, Angel Eyes
...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.
— Mabele "Madea" Simmons Tyler Perry Don't Make A Black Woman Take of Her Earrings
I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
— Jancee Dunn
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no 
— Cyril Connolly
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
— Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
— Bruce Lee
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
— Socrates
Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. 
— Aesop
Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.
— Lisa Kleypas
To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.
— D.S. Mashego
I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.
— Everett Dirksen
A man of principles is a man of his word
— Topsy Gift
Personal commitment to the principles of the kingdom must take pre-eminence
— Sunday Adelaja
By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered
— Sunday Adelaja
The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects
— Sunday Adelaja
297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
— Sunday Adelaja
We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
— Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.
— Sunday Adelaja
Difference in opinion does not imply difference in principle.
— Mike Klepper
One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles
— Sunday Adelaja
To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed
— Sunday Adelaja
To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles
— Sunday Adelaja
When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.
— Sunday Adelaja
For Bonhoeffer, the relationship with God ordered everything else around it. A number of times he referred to the relationship with Jesus Christ as being like the cantus firmus of a piece of music. All the other parts of the music referred to it, and it held them together. To be true to God in the deepest way meant having such a relationship with him that one did not live legalistically by "rules" or "principles." One could never separate one's actions from one's relationship to God. It was a more demanding and more mature level of obedience, and Bonhoeffer had come to see that the evil of Hitler was forcing Christians to go deeper in their obedience, to think harder about what God was asking. Legalistic religion was being shown to be utterly inadequate.
— Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.
— Honoré de Balzac
Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
In this country our principles should not be silent.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.
— Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos
If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.
— Sun Tzu
Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Always remember coin has two sides.
— rja
Past is a Lesson, Present is a Mission, Future is a Vision.
— ademalanujener
Life will treat you according to how you observe its rules and principles.
— Sunday Adelaja
Warriors do not lower themselves to the standards of other people
—  they live independently according to their own standards and code of honor.
Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make, based on principles we believe in..
— Jeremy M Coates
All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.
— Subroto Bagchi
The principles of the Kingdom of God make it possible to live life at its highest level.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only God’s principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free.
— Sunday Adelaja
If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to theprinciples of the Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated.
— Sunday Adelaja
Principles and their consequences are always constant.
— Sunday Adelaja
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselves disabled, unhappy to be deprived of their unhappiness.
— Albert Camus
A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
— Lisa Wingate, Dandelion Summer
But in his years among the drow, Drizzt Do'Urden had learned to look beyond physical beauty and physical attraction. Drizzt did not separate the physical from the emotional. He was a superb fighter because he fought with his heart and would no sooner battle merely for the sake of battle than he would mate for the sake of the physical act.
— R.A. Salvatore, Starless Night
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.
— Stefan Molyneux
Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
— William Shakespeare
People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.
— John Barnes
If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.
— Vladimir Lenin
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith for ultimate justice. He had believed, though he never dared to admit it, that his unyielding faith in his precious principles would bring him the reward her deserved. Now, there was this, a struggle that could only end in death, where one victory brought only more conflict.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem
Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
— Henry Clay, The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay
... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.
— Uzoma Nnadi
A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.
— Robert S. Mulliken
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
— G.K. Chesterton
If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch
— أحمد عمارة
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
— Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.”“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty.“So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.
— Kirsten Beyer, Children of the Storm
It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.
— Edmund Burke
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.
— John Colville, The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955
Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.
— Henry Clay
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. 
— Carrie Fisher
I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?""No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
— Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
— Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.
— Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy.
— Rachel Caine, Ghost Town
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
— Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)
— Jeaniene Frost, At Grave's End
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. 
— H. Havelock Ellis
Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
Really, Sage? A date?"I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date."A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. "I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring.""A real date." I figured I wouldn't give him the specifics on the Shakespheare play."What's the lucky guy's name?""Brayden."There was a pause. "Brayden? That his real name?""Why are you asking if everything's real? You think I'd make any of this up?""No, no," Adrian assured me. "That what's so ynbelievable about it. Is he cute?"I glanced at the clock. It was time for me to meet my study group. "Gee, maybe I should just send you a picture to review?""Yes, please. And a full background check and life history.""I have to go. Why do you care so much anyway?" I finally asked in exasperation.His answer took a long time, which was uncharacteristic.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
Jealousy’s a weak emotion.
— Jay-Z
Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?"Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile."Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it.""Jealous?
— Karen Marie Moning, Faefever
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
— Petar Dunov
Hello, luv," he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.
— Cora Carmack, Losing It
When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.
— Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning
Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy
— Robert A. Heinlein
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.
— Abbi Glines, Breathe
You can't be yourself within jealousy.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
You could be David's friend too". She glanced at Tamani when he said nothing. He was frowning. "The two of you really have a lot in common, and we're all in this together".He shook his head. "It wouldn't work"."Why not? He's a nice guy. And it would do you good to have some human friends", she said hinting at what she suspected was the root of the problem. "It's not that", Tamani said, gesturing vaguely with one hand."Then why?" Laurel asked, exasperated."I just don't want to cosy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing
— Aprilynne Pike, Illusions
Meghan rose with the regal grace of a queen, calm and unruffled. I noticed she subtly moved in front of me when facing Ariella, a familiar gesture that caught me off guard. The Iron Queen was protecting me.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight
Jealousy is love in competition.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!(Act 3, scene 3, 165–171)
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.It was a very long and very green night.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
— Sylvia Day, Reflected in You
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
— Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
No,” he agreed. “You’re not. She never caused me this agony.”What could I say to that? The way he was looking at me was making my head feel funny. Was making me feel funny and not just in that oh God I just almost died way.Christophe leaned in. His mouth was a mere centimetres from me. “She never made me think I would die of heart failure. She never, never made me fear for her this way.
— Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it's worse.
— Kristen Ashley, Motorcycle Man
Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
— Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Voyage
Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.
— Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
— George Gordon Byron
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.
— Petar Dunov
Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.
— Rachel Caine, Black Dawn
Jealousy blurs the focus.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha (gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your imagination."-Sango (Inuyasha tries to hide behind Kagome) "Whatever you say."-Kagome
— Rumiko Takahashi
Who. Hit. You?
— Lili St. Crow, Strange Angels
Why do you care?" His eyes looked casually over my shoulder, down the hallway then flicked back to me. "Are you jealous?" his left eyebrow rose sli
— Leah Spiegel, Foolish Games
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
— Erykah Badu
I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.“I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?
— James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
— Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
— Jacinto Benavente
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.
— Franny Billingsley, Chime
I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.
— Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
Envy suggests inferiority.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75
— Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
— Colette