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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Colin Powell

Life, Giving, Spend

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen

Nation, Found, Everywhere

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams

Good, Best, Bad

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Best, Mind

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
Joan Chen

Love, God, Romantic

Now you know the rest of the story.
Paul Harvey

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

History, Experience, Science

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Nora Ephron

Life, Start, Possible

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler

Life, Change, Time

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance, Head, Pillow

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

Peace, Justice, Else

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Cricket

Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush Limbaugh

Country, Before, Seen

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason

Men, America, Married

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

Kiss, Second, Takes

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Great, Bad, Nothing

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker

Life, Everyone, Progress

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Harry Dean Stanton

Good, May, Night

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell

Life, Place, Genius

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

Life, Future, Interest

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Good, Tell, Nation

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Brian Tracy

Real, Person, Career

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Alone, Humanity

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Planet, Likely

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Dead, Land

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome

Good, Best, Til

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft

Women, Gambling, Foolishly

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice Walker

Country, Free, Away

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker

Best, Care, Young

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