No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.
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Related Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack... HOWARD PYLE Jane Heard. ONE It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was RITA RUDNER Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown o... EPICURUS All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it. UNKNOWN Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. JOSEPH ADDISON Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When God opens a door no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Interviewees were shy - after all, no one had ever asked them about their vaginas before. But once t... DEBI MAZAR Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. GEORGE ORWELL No one ever kicks a dead dog PROVERB There is no better way of life in the world than that of the Australian. I firmly believe this. The ... JOHN O'GRADY The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfo... ALAN ALDA Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. CARLO GOLDONI And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how... SCOTT STOSSEL Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of succ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of succes... SAMUEL JOHNSON When Mark Viduka is fit, there is no-one better in the Premier League at what he does and the two fi... STEVE MCCLAREN The reality is no one really knows when the foliage peak is, CHRIS WEEKS When I came to Formula One the first year, he came to me and he said, 'No! You really made it! I rem... FELIPE MASSA It’s easy to say one that I understand
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No one understands! DEEPAK KUMAR A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it. JEFFREY FRY There is no other explanation. Unless someone can prove that there is something different, I perceiv... FRANK PUENTE When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home... STEVE DIXON Sometimes when the storm comes, it gets big and junky, but there's no one out. We just have to see. JOE GAYDOS I need to be myselfI can't be no one else OASIS You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you. OPRAH WINFREY One caller said that when he called in May, he said I was a moron, ... He said I'm no longer a moron... TIM PURPURA If it happened once, it can happen again. But no one knows when. ROCCO BALDELLI There is no other explanation. Unless someone can prove that there is something different, I perceiv... FRANK PUENTE I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it... DEREK JETER No one deserves it better than David. He was a great player when we had him. We're glad he's doing w... MICHAEL FRANKE It is vital to gauge from where one comes, where one is on that journey and where one wishes to go. JAIME CONTRERAS No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. PAULO COELHO No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. ELIZABETH BERG There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my r... ERIC BURDON No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. DIANA VREELAND When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one ... STEPHEN CRANE No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the ... W. H. AUDEN No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the o... W.H. AUDEN No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits? LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h... APRILYNNE PIKE No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest. JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. JOSIAH ROYCE The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank. G.K. CHESTERTON Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. OSCAR WILDE The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank. WENDY WARD When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes... SøREN KIERKEGAARD When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. JOHANN VON GOETHE One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. MARQUIS DE SADE When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ... JACQUES COUSTEAU It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes. DADA BHAGWAN Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You go in the crowd and you mix, but no one knows that a buddha has entered the crowd. No one comes ... OSHO Without friends no one would choose to live, though he has all other goods. ARISTOTLE No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an... RICHARD PRESTON And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said,... BIBLE When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. YING-AN Everyone has his own parents, no one comes from nowhere. KAZERONNIE MAK It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. CHARLES GOODYEAR No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again. LEONIE SWANN To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. THOMAS AQUINAS To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. PAULO COELHO Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. BUDDHA He was shot once in the back. No one has been arrested. BALA NAIDOO The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't so... HERODOTUS The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to repri... DADA BHAGWAN No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater... THOMAS JEFFERSON No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater... THOMAS JEFFERSON Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He came and applied for one, ... And, quite candidly, I've had several calls from people who said, '... LARRY CAMPBELL If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. TOM PETERS no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence. DAVID KENDALL No one really ever asked why he didn't apply for it. This is an assumption. It's not an easy thing t... LAWRENCE STORY No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king. ADA PALMER All of my life wishing on stars, wishing for him has finally come true... My wishes are no longer fo... NYKI MACK Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a wh... ALEXANDER HERZEN If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. TOM PETERS No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that yo... ABHIJIT NASKAR Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness... JüRGEN MOLTMANN A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. DAN RATHER A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it. VIKRANT PARSAI But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an... ALAN PATON It kind of throws things off. You're used to your regular sequence of events, and this messes everyt... RYAN LONGWELL There is no separation between Carol and Carol's Linens. They are one and the same. CAROL KAPLAN There is no one subsists by himself alone OWEN FELLTHAM It's an ordeal no one should have to go through. MARCIA LEWIS If no one wants to use it, then scrap it. GARY GILBERT He is doing dives that no one else in the state does. BILL LAPMAN Back in the 1860s no one wanted to eat lobster, GLENN JONES One bee makes no swarm. FRENCH PROVERB The prices are up because no one has wheat. JIM REESE No one is guaranteed a job in this. JACK WELCH
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. SOREN KIERKEGAARD It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale.... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic... SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come... SOREN KIERKEGAARD That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity. SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de... SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i... SOREN KIERKEGAARD