Quotes of State - somelinesforyou

“ We are very pleased with our results for the quarter, achieved as they were in a challenging economic climate, and encouraged by the turnaround we enjoyed at several of our key businesses. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure. ”

- John Clare

“ Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. ”

- Bible

“ All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ”

- Mark Twain

“ "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? ”

- Tony Campolo

“ When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ”

- Leslie Caron

“ Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's bless'd. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ”

- George Sheehan

“ By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ”

- Sallust

“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Never in my wildest dreams, Michael, that - never did I think that I - I thought that - I'd be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one. ”

- Ann Landers

“ We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, Gee, I'm glad I have that moment. ”

- John Loengard

“ We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us to really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ”

- Bible

“ The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ”

- Lord Acton

“ The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. ”

- Bertrand Russell
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