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Quotes by Unknown Authors

"Everybody lives for something better to come."

"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."

"If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm."

"Stab me in the heart; once, twice, more. For it is your own you are stabbing; I gave you mine to hold long ago. No pain will be greater than you leaving with my heart in your hands. Rip me apart or hold it for eternity, in the name of love."

"If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it."

"I have done things that are memorable to me. Some of them had brought sadness instantly to me, and others happiness. But I wished I had not made them in the first place, even more for the joyful ones. For they bring pain in me, as what have had happened there will be a memory, and will always stay as one. We can never relive those times, and that is what's haunting me, and brings pain in me..."

"He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . ."

"All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis)."

"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."

"Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I'll attempt to push ahead for my behalf."

"The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat."

"Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied."

"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you."

"The Origin of VioletsI know, blue modest violets,Gleaming with dew at morn-I know the place you come fromAnd the way that you are born!When God cut holes in Heaven,The holes the stars look through,He let the scraps fall down to earth,-The little scraps are you."

"To whom much is given, much is expected."

"He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan."

"Sudden friendship sure repentance."

"You have to understand, having a good time is not my idea of having a good time."

"I never see what has been done, I only see what remains to be done."
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