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I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Mortal
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Author: Lewis Thomas
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Author: Eric Hoffer
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Topic: Jealousy
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Topic: Question
Author: Voltaire
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Author: Ted Turner
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.
Topic: Service
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Topic: Basketball
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Topic: Anger
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Topic: Silence
Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?
Topic: Misfortune
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
Topic: Caution
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Topic: Blood
What you think of me is none of my business.
Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home,-- A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!
Topic: Sea Birds
You get out in front -- you stay out in front.
Topic: Sports
Author: A J Foyt
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Topic: Last Words
Author: Che Guevara