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Thomas a Kempis Quotes

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thomas a Kempis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: german
Birth: 1380 - 1471

Topics

Yourself People Wish You Expect How

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

Jeremiah Wright

World America Still Killer

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

Past Me Writing Forget Write Return

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

Stanley Schmidt

Nature People Think Earth Beast

You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Listening Decisions You Missing Off

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

Fear Dreams Your Dreams Past Saying

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

Believe Rich Arrogance Famous Long

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

Dolores O'Riordan

Parents Church Play Go Choir Used

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Swimming Think Cuba Florida Without

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

Opportunity Sports Money Football

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Memory Brain Perception Thought Heat

Freud was just a novelist.

Just Freud Novelist

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Happiness World Think Will Bring

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