"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office."

Maclaine, Shirley on Promises
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"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."

Proverb, Chinese on Promises
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]"

Shakespeare, William on Dreams
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"Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands."

Selznick, David O. on Hollywood
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"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on Destiny
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on Devil
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on Fools and Foolishness
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"He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo."

Shakespeare, William on Kisses and Kissing
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"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."

Shakespeare, William on Army and Navy
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"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."

Shakespeare, William on Perseverance
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"You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live."

Shakespeare, William on Unemployment
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"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."

Shakespeare, William on Sin
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"Nothing will come of nothing."

Shakespeare, William on Results
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"Every why has a wherefore."

Shakespeare, William on Purpose
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"He plough'd her, and she cropp'd."

Shakespeare, William on Procreation
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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on Slander
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"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..."

Keats, John on Beauty
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"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

Burke, Edmund on Manners
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"I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little."

Bergen, Candice on Orgasm
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"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines."

Thoreau, Henry David on Seasons
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"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

Kennedy, John F. on Humankind
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"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest."

Byron, Lord on Death and Dying
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

Pope, Alexander on Happiness
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on Dogs
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"Fear is excitement without breath."

Heller, Robert on Fear
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"School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you."

Updike, John on Education
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"Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy."

Byron, Lord on Sleep
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"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."

Adler, Jerry on Ecology
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"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!"

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"Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat"

Collier, Robert on Desire
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Success
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"Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row."

King, Florence on Hobos
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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Jung, Carl on Sanity
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"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Sanity
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Anxiety
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"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."

Smith, Frank on Anxiety
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"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on Anxiety
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"The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it."

Gable, Clark on Men
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"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it."

Gable, Clark on Life and Living
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"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."

Boese, Paul on Life and Living
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