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Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn't be. Terry Prachett
We are the guardians of a great human function. Perhaps of the greatest function among the endeavors of man. We have achieved much and we have erred often. But we are willing in all humility to make way for our heirs. We are only men and we are only seekers. But we seek for truth with the best there is in our hearts. We seek with what there is of the sublime granted to the race of men. It is a great quest. Ayn Rand
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events. Napoleon Bonaparte
Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again, Mr. Darnay?"I am frightfully confused regarding time and place, but I am so far mended as to feel that."It must be an immense satisfaction!"He said it bitterly, and filled up his glass again: which was a large one."As to me, the greatest desire I have is to forget that I belong to it. It has no good in it for me--except wine like this--nor I for it. So we are not much alike in that particular. Indeed, I begin to think we are... Charles Dickens
Haruki Murakami quote: "Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the..."
Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you. Haruki Murakami
Victor Hugo quote: "mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them..."
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. Victor Hugo
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up. Haruki Murakami
T. S. Eliot quote: "The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for..."
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do. Andy Rooney
Plautus quote: "Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the..."
Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity) Plautus
Abraham Lincoln quote: "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a..."
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Abraham Lincoln
Carl Jung quote: "The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the..."
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. Carl Jung
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. Ayn Rand
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury. T. H. White

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