"However dark the cloud there is always a silver lining"

"Criticism usually says more about the person delivering it, rather than to who it is been given to"

"You can't see the wind, but you know its there. You can feel it, hear it and see its effects in the trees"

"Salvation comes from within"

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of thing. And no good thing dies"

"Life is like a flower, the seed is the womb, the development like a flower, the bud is the child, has the human being gets older the flower opens. And even when you die you leave a legacy, a seed of development, something that is written in the wind"

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart" [Shakespeare]

"Separated by oceans and cultures our souls met amidst the vastness of space. Never yet realising what we have been searching generations, we nurtured each other's souls and found comfort and bliss in our togetherness. It is only through each other that our dormant spirits began to live again"

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled" [Sir Barnett Cocks]

"The plural of anecdote is not data" [Roger Brinner]

"On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul"

"County music is three chords and the truth" [Harland Howard]

"As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him..."

"That they can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" [Benjamin Franklin]

"So I say to you 'Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you'"

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" [Antoine de Saint Exupery]

"Truly, no ransom avails for one's life, there is no price one can give to God for it"

"Freedom is not something you should have to 'pay' for but a pre-requisite of life"

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond" [Abigail Adams]

"Set your minds on things that are above, not those things that are on earth..."

"Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage"

"At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered" [Tracy Chapman]

"He gives double who gives unasked" [Arabian Proverb]

"Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked"

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored" [Evelyn Waugh]

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name"

"The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love"

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it"

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe, for indeed our God is consuming fire"

"The difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense" [Mark Twain]

"Fortune favours the brave, and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves" [Anthony Trollop]

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble"

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought" [Henri Berguson]

"We will always remember his smile. He was our lark, he made wonderful music....the sunshine has gone from our lives" [A tribute to a Briton who lost his life in the terrorist attacks in America, 2001]

"Make my husband a star - he was one all his life" [Another tribute to a Briton killed in the American atrocities, 2001]

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. Or leave a kiss in the cup and I'll not look for wine" [Ben Johnson]

"In times like these, we need strength of spirit. We need much more than that - we have a lot of hard work ahead of us - but it is very important that we not lose faith in the dream of the ideal America. How comforting it is, then to see such a world-wide show of support as I've seen in the aftermath" [Pete Thiruseivam, Editor WebProNews, commenting on the tragic events in America, 2001]

"Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself" [Walt Whitman]

"Touch my heart for just one minute, and I will never forget you for life"

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything yet" [Muhammad Ali]

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them" [John Bernard Books (John Wayne) in 'The Shootist']

"Soldiers, sailors, Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking" [General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, on the eve of D-Day]

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