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Ruta Sepetys - Salt to the Sea

But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.

Shannon L. Alder -

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

Debasish Mridha -

What we call spirit is our universal consciousness. We can also call it atomic consciousness. Every atom is conscious and knows everything that is going on around it at every moment.

Debasish Mridha -

Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life’s journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises.

Shannon L. Alder -

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

Louise Philippe Dulay -

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

Sunday Adelaja -

A day should be your controlling and managing factor

Colin Feltham - Keeping Ourselves in the Dark

We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us down and plays tricks on us. We have built and seem unable to dismantle a dehumanizing and destructive civilization and mindset that perpetuates deceit and greed. We can make ourselves as comfortable as possible, as doctors tell their terminally ill patients, but we are sadly incurable.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.

Sam Owen - 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The goal is achievable.

Sunday Adelaja -

No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us

Shelley Noble - Beach Colors

Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about. And then what? Were you supposed to spend the rest of your life, dreaming about the past while you waited to die? Or did you start a new life, set the cycle in motion once again. Take the chance of losing that, too. And if you did, what happened to the old life? Did it die away from lack of attenti

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

Amit Ray - Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

Aberjhani - The River of Winged Dreams

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Ranata Suzuki -

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

Beryl Markham - West with the Night

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

J.P. Delaney - The Girl Before

But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every sacred soul has in a sacred body.

Nurudeen Ushawu -

Whatever is meant for you in the universe shall be given to you. Do not despair.

Munia Khan -

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The bond of love will unite the world.

Alaric Hutchinson - Living Peace

Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.

Lukhman Pambra -

You are a book being read every moment, By someone or the other, Though only in parts! But, you are extremely safe, Rather, unfortunate For no one has ever read the entire book!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I am a lifelong learner.

Dannika Dark - Impulse

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Mr. Rosewater

I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I think it's a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies.

Sunday Adelaja -

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land

Christina Engela - Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1

If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.

Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...

TemitOpe Ibrahim -

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.

Steven Magee -

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.

A.E. Samaan -

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

Benjamin Disraeli -

London is a roost for every bird.

Cecil Rhodes -

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

James Thomson -

Rule Britannia Britannia rule the waves Britains never will be slaves.

Anthony Sampson -

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

William Hazlitt -

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Lord Rosebery -

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

Stevie Smith -

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

Frank Field -

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Clement Attlee -

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

Truman Capote -

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

D. H. Lawrence -

The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

Clark Ross Parker -

There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

Anthony Burgess -

Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Thomas Appleton -

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

Lord Byron -

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

Voltaire -

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

George Bernard Shaw -

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Bruce Gould -

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

George Santayana -

England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

Novalis -

Not only England but every Englishman is an island.

James Agate -

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

David Ormsby Gore -

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Thomas Dibdin -

Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

Cedric Hardwicke -

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

Wilfrid Laurier -

The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.

Daniel O'Connell -

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Winston Churchill -

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Lord Thomson of Fleet -

Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

T. Augustine Arne -

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

V. S. Pritchett -

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Clement Attlee -

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Margaret Halsey -

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

Raymond Postgate -

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.

A. W. Smith -

Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.

Rudyard Kipling -

What should they know of England who only England know?

Philip Guedalla -

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Paul Gallico -

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Alexander Woollcott -

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Robert Morley -

We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.

Matthew Arnold -

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Patrick Campbell -

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Marshall McLuhan -

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

Thomas Beecham -

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Frank Adcock -

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

Wendy Michener -

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Hugh Mills -

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Hugh Casson -

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

George Bernard Shaw -

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Stephen Leacock -

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

English proverb -

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

Nigel Newton -

England is a nation of voyeurs.

David Lloyd George -

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Edmund C. Bentley -

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Henry Carey -

God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.

Dean Acheson -

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Christopher North -

His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.

Charles Lamb -

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Rupert Brooke -

If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

George Bernard Shaw -

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

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