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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
You
Better
Will
First
Meet
Thousand
Thousand Years
Minute
Know
Years
Friends
Than
Acquaintances
Your
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
Man
Opportunity
Passion
Wife
Evil
Adultery
Living
Guilty
Would
Some
Could
He
Like
Obvious
Another
Caught
Than
Act
Less
Reason
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
Saint Ignatius
Yourself
Own
Others
Rather
Imperfections
Contemplating
Occupy
Than
Your
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Judge
Liberty
Men
Own
Control
Nothing
Else
Weaker
Restraint
Laws
Tenor
Without
Hear
Oppress
Loudly
Than
May
Mean
Themselves
Poorer
Who
Whole
Actions
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Samuel Adams
Nature
Men
Power
More
Take
Generally
Share
Make
Vested
Than
Intended
Human
Should
Who
Inclined
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.
Sonam Kapoor
Beauty
Single
Every
Think
Adds
Rather
Imperfect
Perfect
Imperfection
Than
Your
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence
Will
Add
Danger
Direct
Rather
Take
Computers
Develop
Over
Real
Opposition
Brain
Than
Human
Urgently
Human Intelligence
Connections
Need
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking
Nothing
Universe
Something
Know
Greater
Exists
Than
Want
Why
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
Steven Pinker
Memory
Mind
Systematic
Statistics
Reliance
Tells
Anecdotes
Vivid
Rather
Because
Vulnerable
Than
Human
Psychology
Us
Human Mind
Many
Illusions
Cognitive
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
God
Faith
Day
Relationship
Challenges
Balance
Every Day
People
Maturity
Every
Fluctuate
Other
Approach
Way
Say
Would
People Say
Rather
Factors
Maintain
Come
Concerning
Am
Continue
Than
Stable
Moved
Being
Your
Derived
Why
Level
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes
Forgiveness
Yourself
Past
About
Rather
Empowering
Than
Your
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
Darkness
Better
Sometimes
Light
Than
Curse
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine
Faith
Better
Tyranny
Defence
He
Real
George
Than
Title
Against
Reason
Rebel
Rebels
Third
Defender
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
Self-Respect
You
Respect
People
Better
Please
Temporarily
Retain
Wrong
Know
Doing
Than
May
Them
Your
Displease
Right
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
Man
Will
Men
Backbone
Thousand
One-Man
More
Individual
Mere
Than
Activity
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
Positive
Success
Attitude
Failure
You
Reality
Yourself
Will
Men
Positive Results
Though
Something
More
Results
Feel
Soon
Look
Becomes
Amazed
Accomplished
Accordingly
Conduct
Than
Depends
Capacity
Successful
Act
Enjoying
Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
Time
More
Makes
Than
Converts
Reason
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Nothing
Manners
Haste
More
Vulgar
Than
Require
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Christopher Reeve
Success
You
Giving
Finding
More
Take
Than
Little
Success Is
Satisfaction
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley
Wine
Beauty
Worse
Both
Than
Beholder
Holder
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
A. A. Milne
You
Book
Cinema
Old
Will
Churches
Responsible
Atheism
More
Written
Disbelief
Call
Course
Testament
Than
Any
Golf
Golf Course
Old Testament
Agnosticism
Ever
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Other
Furnished
Worse
Pardon
Could
Never
He
Rob
Most
Go
Dollars
Motive
Hand
Sell
Than
Africa
Children
Which
Depraved
Them
Cents
Then
Much
Who
Her
Receive
Bondage
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
Albert Bandura
Failure
People
Sense
Approach
Back
Worrying
About
Rather
Wrong
Bounce
Terms
How
Go
Handle
Than
Them
Who
Things
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
Alex Honnold
Life
Risks
Quality
Matter
Important
Too
Else
Consider
Though
More
More Than Anything
Take
Soon
Quantity
Always
End
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Should
Even
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
Life
Practice
Preach
Negation
Others
Defined
Dare
Rather
Higher
Higher Level
Ideals
Beyond
Make
Go
Affirmation
Than
Capability
Then
Your
Level
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
Song
Victory
Would
Memorial Day
Rather
Remembered
Than
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