Alexandre Dumas Quotes
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.Alexandre Dumas
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson -
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki -
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
AJ McLean -
Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Aaron Neville -
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
John Madden
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
Buck Owens -
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
Oswald Chambers -
We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
Jack Straw -
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
Lisa Unger -
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Marco Polo -
Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.
Kevin Keegan
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You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
Corrie Ten Boom -
I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
Ella Baker -
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
John Lilly -
Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
Sebastian Vettel -
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James -
The patrol boat began shooting at us, and the women on our boat screamed.
Anh Do -
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
Alexandre Dumas