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I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

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• Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

  

  Halsey
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Hope

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Language
  • My Life

• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Should
  • U.S.
  • Difficulties

• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Organization
  • Anti-Semitic

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• Be natural and use your head.

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Magic
  • Natural
  • Use

• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Body
  • Changes
  • Self Image

• All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thought
  • Kill
  • Destruction

• It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Success
  • Financial

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Desire

• ...she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgement.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • God
  • Love
  • Creation

• I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

  

  Judith Faulkner
  • Knowing
  • Around
  • Who I Am

• I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Been

• I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

  

  Amby Burfoot
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