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21 " No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart . "
― Stephen King
22 " If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest
23 " Appreciate What You Have" Just sitting, looking, thinking,Staring at the coffee which I was drinking,Oh, what a lucky person I must be,That God gave me sight to see.Then reading the news, I saw some more,That I still have hands to be able to draw.Sometimes we do not realise how lucky we are that we always strive for more ! I wrote this many years ago and if only people were satisfied with what they had, not get jeolous & envious, the world would be a better place: "
24 " In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story. "
― Shannon L. Alder
25 " [Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. You would think the millions of people who come to Williamsburg every year would say to each other, " Gosh, Bobbi, this place is beautiful. Let's go home to Smellville and plant lots of trees and preserve all the fine old buildings." But in fact that never occurs to them. They just go back and build more parking lots and Pizza Huts. "
26 " No one is born poor. People choose to become and remain poor. No one became wealthy from begging. Only people who have set limits on themselves do that. No one became wealthy from living off handouts. This is not the will of God for anyone. No one became wealthy from foraging in people’s bins. Only rats do that. You can excel and make money where you are without running helter skelter in search of green pastures. "
― Uyoyou C. Charles-Iyoha , Unlock the Billions in You
27 " Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. "
― D.H. Lawrence , Lady Chatterley's Lover
28 " I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time. "
― Regina Brett , God Is Always Hiring: 50 Lessons for Finding Fulfilling Work
29 " I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce) "
30 " Our grief is not a cry for war." That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. " They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here. "
31 " Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly. "
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32 " There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make. "
― Andy Andrews , The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances
33 " So you've given away the old good and evil? asked Rose, amazed at all this rare talk from Quick.No. No. I'll stay a cop. But it's not us and them anymore. It's us and us and us. It's always us. That's what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there's no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts. "
― Tim Winton , Cloudstreet
34 " It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. "
― T.H. White , The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
35 " At last, we arrived home. Indian Vale. The house my father had built that had become mine and that one day would be my daughter’s, if she chose to stay in the area. She wouldn’t, though. Why should she? The young people here moved somewhere else as fast as they could, and the old folks withered away and died. The factories vanished and the mines and mills sank into the ground, and in their places were erected fast food joints and furniture rental places and pawnshops. Sometimes I hear places like where I live called “Real America,” and I know it rankles some folks—city folks, mostly—something awful, and I wish I could tell them it’s only done out of politeness. That it’s only people saying nice things about the dying. "
― Jason Miller , Red Dog (Slim in Little Egypt, #2)
36 " And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile. "
37 " In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts. "
38 " Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: " Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better. "
39 " if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place "
40 " In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. "
― Robert Goddard , Closed Circle