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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Capriati, Jennifer

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. Capriati, Jennifer quotes

Downs, Hugh

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Downs, Hugh …

Erasmus, Desiderius

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. …

Ray, John

Children are poor men’s riches. Ray, John quotes

Sometimes I wish I weren’t famous. -Wynette, Tammy

"I thought it was like winning the lottery. The leads were real solid: Customers were calling us and saying, ‘Will you be my broker?" – Daniel Yovich

“I thought it was like winning the lottery. The leads were real solid: Customers were calling us and saying, ‘Will you be my broker?” – …

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. -Becker, May L.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

I’d like to see America but I’m afraid to risk it. As soon as I got over Mr. Frohman might request me to sit in …

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. -Ellis, Havelock

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. -Frost, Robert

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. -Churchill, Winston

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men. -Ligario, Cicero Pro

David Fincher

“I’m not sure how much movies should entertain. I’ve always been more interested in movies that scar.” David Fincher quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. -Donne, John

"It is a facile thinking that would be comforted by the fact that it has 2000 contacts on face book, because when it would face a difficulty, even 10 percent of them won’t turn up to show their faces." – Dr Hitesh C Sheth

“It is a facile thinking that would be comforted by the fact that it has 2000 contacts on face book, because when it would face …

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." – Benjamin Franklin

“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

Habit is a form of exercise -Hubbard, Elbert

"We see it as just another lottery game that’s comparable to bingo." – Rebecca Rausch

“We see it as just another lottery game that’s comparable to bingo.” – Rebecca Rausch

"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." – Barbara De Angelis

“We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves …

"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged." – Roger Jones

“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” – Roger Jones

"That’s been one of the most successful campaigns we’ve had in the history of lottery." – Courtney Hill

“That’s been one of the most successful campaigns we’ve had in the history of lottery.” – Courtney Hill

"It’s like winning the lottery." – Carolina Herrera

“It’s like winning the lottery.” – Carolina Herrera

"If you start out wanting to be Julia Roberts, the odds are like winning the lottery. But if you want to be an actor there’s a world of possibilities out there…There’s a huge network of working actors who aren’t Julia Roberts." – Carol Goodheart

“If you start out wanting to be Julia Roberts, the odds are like winning the lottery. But if you want to be an actor there’s …

The Thames is liquid history. -Burns, John

Accuracy

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. – Stevenson, Adlai E.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. -Vidal, Gore

"Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things." – Leo F. Buscaglia

“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.” – Leo …

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. -Jerome, St.

Brand, Stewart

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. Brand, Stewart quotes

Bernstein, Leonard

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. Bernstein, Leonard quotes

Leach, Reggie

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. Leach, Reggie quotes

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. -Stevenson, Robert Louis

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." – Jacques Benigne Bossuel

“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” – Jacques Benigne Bossuel

This one step — choosing a goal and sticking to it — changes everything. -Reed, Scott

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway."" – Maya Angelou

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am …

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