Wells Quotes - Page 30

• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Letting Go, Strong, Sleep

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• No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

  L. P. Jacks

  Valentines Day, Mean, God Is Love

  L.P. Jacks (1924). “A Living Universe”

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• I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Mean, Drug

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Well, at least I had on underwear

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Underwear

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• The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humility, Church, Teach

  Saint Joan (1924) preface

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• Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.

  Jeremy Piven

  Beer, Class, Car

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• You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, Marijuana, Government

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• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Tommy Rettig

  Real, Lying, Government

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• Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.

  Des MacHale

  Play, Worst, Customers

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• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  John Lennon

  Eye, Marijuana, Smoking

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• Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

  James Monroe

  Religious, Godly, Men

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hasty

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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• I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Jobs

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Cutting

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.217, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

  Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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• Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Islamic

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.

  Mohamed Elmasry

  Suicide, Islamic, Mean

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
  Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
  Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
  Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
  Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Kings, Islamic

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• As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf)

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Issues

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• "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

  Ernest Gaines

  People, Feelings, Dying

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.123, Vintage

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• Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

  Tom Cruise

  Death, Dying, Oblivion

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• Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Ideas, People, Dying

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• With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Football, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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