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I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
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I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where the press is free and every man
is able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month,
and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Autobiographies are only as useful
as the lives you read about and analyze
may suggest to you something that
you may find useful in your own journey through life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If I were to try to read, much less answer,
all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
- Abraham Lincoln
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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