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Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
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It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
The final lesson a writer learns is that
everything can nourish the writer.
The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,
a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
- Anais Nin
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work
without having to talk
because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
Regrets and their cousins, resentments,
are a huge cause of self-inflicted suffering.
Sometimes it takes years of psychotherapy
to gain freedom from regrets about what you did or did not do,
and freedom from resentment over what others did or did not do.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime of self-talk to remember
to put the past in the past where it belongs.
However, sometimes a simple symbolic act can help immeasurably
to grant ourselves freedom from the past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised.
No barrier of the senses shuts me out from
the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller
If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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