William Hazlitt Quotes
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
Usain Bolt
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
Dana Perino
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
Rachel Platten
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I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Nan Fairbrother
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Vaclav Havel
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Let's say for now, that I'm hopeful that Al will not run that kind of campaign.
Joe Lieberman
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After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.
Louie Gohmert
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I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.
Ann Druyan
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Xenocrates
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The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.
Cameron Crowe
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
Oscar Wilde
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People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
Edwidge Danticat
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State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.
Eliot Spitzer
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Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
Cynthia Heimel
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In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.
Bob Griese
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A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.
Louise Rennison
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I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.
Barbara Hamby
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
William Shakespeare
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Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt