Mark Twain Quotes
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
Sadhu Vaswani -
I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
Gail Carson Levine -
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
Nathan Myhrvold -
We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
Ian Hecox -
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
Frances O'Grady -
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech -
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
Otto Penzler -
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
Barbara Olson -
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Samantha Power -
I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
J. K. Simmons -
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton -
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Frances Burney -
That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
Rabindranath Tagore
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My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
Jose Maria Aznar -
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy -
I help design my own tennis clothes.
Maria Sharapova -
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
Mike Mills -
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln -
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain