Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.Melissa de la Cruz
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I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Zebulon Pike -
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden -
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair -
Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Brian Tracy -
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
H. H. Asquith -
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
Oscar Wilde -
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
John Tillotson -
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates -
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Love is no love which asks for a return.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
William Shakespeare -
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
Thomas Sowell -
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane Austen -
Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.
Cynthia Lord -
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
Plutarch -
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
Melissa de la Cruz