It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Related Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wi... LAURA INGALLS WILDER Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our... MATTHIAS It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what a... SATYA NADELLA Sometimes less is more. Our quest for more, then, keeps us from it. JAN DENISE It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties,... CARL LEVIN It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we ow... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we ... S.R. CRAWFORD The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ... AUGUSTUS HARE Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our pres... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were... SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to ... SONIA LEVITIN Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap... JOHN C. CALHOUN Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant att... THEODORE DALRYMPLE “Unsung Heroes are the men and women of our armed forces who defend us every day at the cost of fa... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Sometimes we are scared of our own shadow, and our imaginations get the best of us. JAMES DYE We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own... HENRY MILLER I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.... MARY POPE OSBORNE We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should tak... LUKASZ LANIECKI Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy. JOE TASLIM What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own. FRANCIOUS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the d... CARLOS CASTANEDA Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA For every day that we are not merged, it is costing us and our customers a lot of money. It is also ... WALTER RAIZNER Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruc... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others ... ALAN MOORE We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our frien... P. D. JAMES We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our fri... P. D. JAMES The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart ... ERIC HOFFER It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until s... PATRICK HENRY Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generati... ISABEL GILLIES Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps... GREGORY MAGUIRE Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde... E. M. FORSTER I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child ... TRACY CHEVALIER Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Every day is a new day, created by GOD for us to become a better version of ourselves; we should use... KEISHA KIRKPATRICK I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush. DANA PERINO Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta... CASEY MILLER We are obviously pleased with our continued traffic growth as it shows the importance of local news ... JULIE BURROWS Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness. ZOROASTER And still the question, "What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?" is not laid at rest; and I some... GROVER CLEVELAND Treating everyone with dignity and respect is of utmost importance to me and are values we instill a... HEATHER BRESCH And still the question, What shall be done with our ex-Presidents? is not laid at rest; and I someti... GROVER CLEVELAND Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow... CHARLES SHEEHAN-MILES When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta... CASEY MILLER Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll... THOMAS À KEMPIS So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us. EYDIE GORME Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn o... TARIQ RAMADAN We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This out... JEFFREY DAVIS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what diffe... LAURA MONCUR 7.4 Billion and counting. The way we view our own importance as a species and our rights to survival... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical ... WALT WHITMAN I think to the extent that it keeps them on their toes, it's a good thing. It certainly helps, so lo... ANGELO AMADOR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls... JEAN ROSTAND The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long a... JOHN STUART MILL Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a
day, for good or ba... TOM BLANDI Sometimes our sensitiveness make us insensitive. We think of only our feelings, without giving much ... MJ CHRISTINE Sometimes our sensitiveness make us insensitive. We think of only our feelings, without giving much ... MJ CHRISTINE It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long a... JOHN STUART MILL They are all upset. None of them think it is a good idea. CARY STIDHAM When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice... JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It dire... B. C. FORBES Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Surprise is just a paradox. Sometimes it annoys us; sometimes it shakes the tears of joy within us; ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g... IRVING BERLIN So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There ... PLINY THE YOUNGER Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g... TOM BLANDI In Japan, we prefer modesty. It is our tradition and I think it will exist forever. Americans prefer... KARIN KEMMOCHI It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. FRANCOISE SAGAN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Breaking our silence is powerful. Whether it comes as a whisper or a squeak at first, allow that sen... LUCY H. PEARCE She's halfway through the treatments and reports from her doctor are favorable. The tumor is 50 perc... LARRY SMITH Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core o... IYANLA VANZANT The funny thing is that although we place so much energy and importance on our wedding day, it isn't... LAURA WOLF When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD Sometimes being honest and open to others is not good because sometimes you expect them to do the sa... HENRY DOCTOLERO, JR. If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory... JANE AUSTEN In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind... V. S. NAIPAUL We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being ch... DIANNE FEINSTEIN Sometimes being honest and open to others is not good because sometimes you expect them to do the sa... HENRY DOCTOLERO, JR. Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i... THOMAS MERTON Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b... THE TRUTH It proves that wildlife naturally draws our attention. This is one of the ways teachers can use this... LORI ADAMS Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us... ERIC ALLENBAUGH If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it with... DAVID SUZUKI Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc... LE CORBUSIER I think that our public schools sometimes get a bad rap - and sometimes deservedly so. I think the g... DAN BONNER I think that our public schools sometimes get a bad rap - and sometimes deservedly so. I think the g... DAN BONNER So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and... CAMRYN MANHEIM You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day... ELLEN GLASGOW
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JASINDA WILDER Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Bid... DOUGLAS WILDER Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high o... THORNTON WILDER I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the l... DEONTAY WILDER Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st... GENE WILDER The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on y... THORNTON WILDER France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. BILLY WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ... THORNTON WILDER I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of... THORNTON WILDER The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. BILLY WILDER An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ... BILLY WILDER Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. DON WILDER The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th... THORNTON WILDER We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ... THORNTON WILDER I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... THORNTON WILDER Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. THORNTON WILDER What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. BILLY WILDER One's too many, and a hundred's not enough. BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. BILLY WILDER I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. THORNTON WILDER Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the im... THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. THORNTON WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me... BILLY WILDER My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin... GENE WILDER I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teac... DEONTAY WILDER But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the ... JASINDA WILDER A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su... GENE WILDER It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (... BILLY WILDER There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif... CHERRYN WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo... THORNTON WILDER If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. THORNTON WILDER It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (... BILLY WILDER There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif... CHERRYN WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ... THORNTON WILDER I will be that guy to change this sport, especially in the heavyweight division. A lot of people hav... DEONTAY WILDER I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was... GENE WILDER No good deed goes unpunished. BILLY WILDER I just thought here is comedy, here is tragedy. That is the way life is. I just tried to do it true ... BILLY WILDER