Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 9

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

Rajneesh

Dies, Ifs

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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

Rajneesh

Unique, Masterpiece, Incomparable

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The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

Malcolm Wallop

Mistake, Gun, Class

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You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Brian Jordan

Feel Better, Lines, Want

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I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

Lucinda Williams

Song, Work, Mean

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

Jimi Hendrix

Mean, Thinking, Views

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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Improvement, Feels

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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

Ruben Studdard

Feel Good, Okay, Feels

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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

Rajneesh

Mind, Paradise, Hell

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I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Elle Macpherson

Beautiful, Quiet, Good Person

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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

Reform, Literature, World

"The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

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I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Mark Knopfler

Thinking, Play, People

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A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Moon, Shine Bright

William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, College, Class

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Oscar Wilde

Time, 4th Of July, America

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Loren Eiseley

Eye, Animal, Reflection

Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Lukas Foss

Mean, Feel Good, Doe

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sarcastic, War, Sarcasm

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Technology, Information

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Ignorance, Voting

Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

George Washington

Christian, Training, Youth

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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

Nature, Flower, Heart

Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life And Love, Honor, Important

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