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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra

Impossible, Everybody, Talking

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama

Education, Food, Medical

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina Jolie

Women, Great, Hate

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Maynard James Keenan

End, Put, Reflection

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
Joel Osteen

Sometimes, Away

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Boring, Watch

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle Dax

Nature, Time, Insecurity

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler

Life, Here, Add

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

Tired, Nothing, Before

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happy, Care, Thinking

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yourself, Ask, Sufficient

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Men, Give, Married

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck

Courage, May, Give

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates

Life, Yourself, Find

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken

Place, Heaven, Church

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Country, Two, Honest

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown

Mean, Give, Play

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett

Mean, Country, Needs

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher

Job, Woman, Else

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Home, Countries

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Barbara Mandrell

Marriage, God, Pain

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O'Brien

Life, Work, Amazing

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
John Wooden

Life, High, Valleys

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
Temple Grandin

Words, Remember, Talk

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp

Musical, Minute, Chances

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

Great, Leader, Himself

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Trouble, Seriously

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