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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

Human, Try, Light

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt

Best, Hope, Possession

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
Albert Ellis

Old, Used, Days

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

End, Country, Begin

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide

Fear, Monsters, Warrant

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Great, Sad

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
Ellen DeGeneres

Success, Thought, Wanted

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus

Wife, Single, Doubt

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn

Around, Used, Growing

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Mason Cooley

Artists, Artistic, Afford

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

Love, Law, Learn

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Thomas a Kempis

Men, Patience, Practice

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus

Blessing, Crime, Committed

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
James M. Barrie

Impressive, Sights

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
Scott Adams

Work, Best, Yourself

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams

Power, Give, Dangerous

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha Beck

Lonely, Personal, Absolutely

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings

Old, Dog, Puppy

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Garrison Keillor

Sad, Nice, Makes

Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph Joubert

Born, Order, Observe

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer

Worse, Rarely, Fathers

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
J. K. Rowling

Work, Hard, Mean

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

Problem, Everyone, Behind

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.
Brian Celio

True, Friends, Admit

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

Life, Known, Afternoon

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Chance, Gift, Happens

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beautiful, Cannot, Beach

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Woman, Him

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
Paul McCartney

Person, Play, Rather

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