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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

Smart, May, Thought

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Coward, Boast

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
Hubert H. Humphrey

War, Today, Brother

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Great, Hope, Sorrow

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom, Virus, Contagious

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Everything, Off

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Billy Graham

End, Done, Thought

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Love, Important

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Great, Art, Made

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley

Fear, Failure, Confidence

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

Heart, Worse, Thou

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Courage, Compassion, Congress

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

Business, Looks, Gambling

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Carl Jung

Important, Everyone, Far

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, After, Victory

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
Lucien Bouchard

Betrayal, Deceit, Expression

A man is known by the company he organizes.
Ambrose Bierce

Company, Organizes

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Death, Die

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal

Everything, Cannot, Since

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

Reading, Hour, Distress

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

Marriage, Death, Simple

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore Vidal

Genius, Andy, Warhol

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis

Greatest, Woman, Sickness

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens

Done, Far, Rest

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Long, Rich, Wish

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women, Men, Charming

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

Men, Wife, Keep

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats

Difficult, Secret

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur

Men, War, Friend

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