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  • I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
        Jack London   Best?
  • Once in the racket you're always in it.
        Al Capone   Best?
  • Out of the frying pan into the fire.
        Quintus Septimius Tertullianus   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
        Themistocles   Best?
  • Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
        Confucious   Best?
  • You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
        John Ciardi   Best?
  • I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • You're a parasite for sore eyes.
        actor Gregory Ratoff   Best?
  • It's nice to see a Democrat blow something besides an election.
        Arsenio Hall   Best?
  • Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
        Mouth organist Larry Adler   Best?
  • Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
        Bellamy Brooks   Best?
  • Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
        Katharine Whitehorn   Best?
  • The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
  • You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!
        Neil Peart   Best?
  • Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
        Unknown   Best?
  • What you cannot enforce, do not command.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
        Kathleen A. Sutton   Best?
  • Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
        Reggie Leach   Best?
  • Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
        John Russell   Best?
  • Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
        Ted Morgan   Best?
  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
        Russell Baker   Best?
  • When combined, this is what makes the soul take the risk of simply being themselve without any trepidation.
        B Chandler   Best?
  • There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • I have found men who didn't know how to kiss.
        Mae West   Best?
  • Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
        Marcel Proust   Best?
  • No one is without fear, fear is what makes us a lot of who we are. It is not the end all, be all, but it is what makes us think before we act. It is what keeps us in check, and without it, we will begin to do many stupid things which serve very little purpose to do.
        Jeffrey De Cola   Best?
  • The artist is always beginning.
        Ezra Pound   Best?
  • Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.
        Ty King   Best?
  • Man's drive for self expression, which over centuries built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations, which yesterday were the detested and obscene, become the classics of today.
        Matthew Tobriner   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
        Willa Foster   Best?
  • What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
        Stanley Kunitz   Best?

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