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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
-- A. J. Muste

#War #Thinking #Lessons

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
-- A.M. Jenkins

#Knowing #Lesson Learned #Lessons

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
-- Aaron Carter

#Running #Hands #Lessons

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
-- Abdallah II

#War #Winning #Lessons

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-- Abigail Adams

#Retirement #Lessons #Leisure

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#Mistake #Islamic #Lessons

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Lessons #Good Things #Teach

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
-- Al Jourgensen

#Lessons #Shapes #Pay

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Class #Lessons #Management

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
-- Alan Bennett

#Stars #Lessons #Recipes

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
-- Alan Cohen

#Morning #Joy #Lessons

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Snapshots #Lessons #Might

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
-- Albert Einstein

#Mistake #Lessons #Life Is

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
-- Alberto Juantorena

#School #Lessons #Genocide

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Suffering #Lessons #Way

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Public Opinion #Oracles #Lessons

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.
-- Alexander Jablokov

#Entrepreneur #Lessons

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
-- Alexandra Fuller

#Real #Lessons #Way

Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?
-- Alexandra Ivy

#Imagination #Lessons #Tables

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.
-- Alexis Denisof

#Important #Lessons #Wanted

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
-- Alexis Ohanian

#Lessons #Pants #Internet

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
-- Alfred Austin

#Lessons #Lips #Maidens

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.
-- Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Dying #Comfort #Lessons

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
-- Allyson Schwartz

#Evil #World #Lessons

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
-- Alonzo Mourning

#Blessing #Thinking #Lessons

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
-- Amelie Mauresmo

#Life Lesson #Lessons #Way

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Humor #Lessons #Misadventure

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
-- Amy Chua

#Giving Up #Kids #Lessons

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
-- Amy Grant

#Light #Yellow #Lessons

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
-- Amy Lee

#Fun #School #Lessons

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #Experience #Lessons

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
-- Amy Tan

#Writing #Fiction #Lessons

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
-- Andrea Corr

#Kids #Dancing #Lessons

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
-- Andrea Pirlo

#Lessons #Pearls #Littles

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Lessons #Legislature

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Political #Use #Lessons

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
-- Andrew Davidson

#Pain #Lessons #Teach

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.
-- Andrew Johnson

#People #Lessons #Want

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
-- Andrew Marr

#History #Lessons #Facts

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
-- Andrew Young

#Rights #Movement #Lessons

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.
-- Andy Andrews

#Thinking #Enough Time #Lessons

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
-- Andy Grove

#Wind #Needs #Lessons

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
-- Angela Kinsey

#Sacrifice #Self #Lessons

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.
-- Angus Buchan

#Giving Up #Sight #Lessons

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
-- Ani DiFranco

#Order #Lessons #Clarity

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
-- Ann Richards

#Mistake #Lessons #Valuable

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.
-- Anna Popplewell

#Fun #Archery #Lessons

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Responsibility #Development #Lessons

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Lessons #Bogs

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Life #Lessons #Sometimes

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
-- Anthony Minghella

#War #Hero #Lessons

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.
-- Antwone Fisher

#Boys #Ties #Lessons

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Holocaust #Taught #Lessons

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.
-- Aron Ralston

#Accomplishment #Important #Lessons

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Morning #Drs #Lessons

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Lessons #Lasts #Ends

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
-- Arthur Lynch

#Kindness #Lessons #Poverty

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
-- Barbara Brennan

#Imbalance #Lessons #Helping

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-- Barbara De Angelis

#Yoga #Delight #Lessons

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Rome #Lessons #Matter

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.
-- Barbara Marciniak

#Light #Challenges #Lessons

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.
-- Barbara Neely

#Lessons #Matter

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
-- Bear Grylls

#Lessons #Rewards #Hell

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Talking #Tree #Lessons

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
-- Beilby Porteus

#Men #Heaven #Lessons

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
-- Belva Plain

#Women #Lessons #Plans

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Recovery #Long #Lessons

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Profound #Forgiving #Lessons

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Children #Lessons #Firsts

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Singing #Body #Lessons

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Hoe #Needs #Lessons

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Boston #Lessons #Keyboards

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
-- Bill W.

#Recovery #Humility #Lessons

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
-- Billie Jean King

#Life Lesson #Lessons #Firsts

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
-- Black Elk

#Nature #Attention #Lessons

God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.
-- Bo Sanchez

#Teaching #Victory #Lessons

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
-- Bob Parsons

#Past #Lessons #Way

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.
-- Bob Proctor

#Winning #Lessons #Littles

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
-- Bobby Fischer

#Giving #One Day #Lessons

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.
-- Boomer Esiason

#Life Lesson #Age #Lessons

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Cairo #Lessons #Way

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Son #Lessons #My Son

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
-- Brett Favre

#Life Lesson #People #Lessons

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
-- Brian Herbert

#Hurt #Lessons #Lectures

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?
-- Bristol Palin

#Mother #Lying #Lessons

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Past #Lessons #Print

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
-- Bruce Dern

#Travel #People #Lessons

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Upset #Lessons #Awakening

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Being Yourself #Thinking #Lessons

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.
-- Buddy Ebsen

#Ballet #Negative #Lessons

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Order #Religion #Lessons

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.
-- Cael Sanderson

#Lessons #Painful #Evolve

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
-- Carlo Collodi

#School #What Matters #Lessons

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Ideas #Stories #Lessons

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
-- Cassia Leo

#Mistake #Character #Lessons

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
-- Cat Stevens

#Unity #Lessons #Messages

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
-- Catherine Helen Spence

#Mean #Giving #Lessons

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.
-- Catherine McAuley

#Lessons #Today #Tomorrow

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
-- Cathy Lee Crosby

#Lying #Needs #Lessons

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Life #Inspirational Life #Lessons