A Quote by Sufyan al-Thawri
There is nothing more difficult for me to correct than my intentions, for it continually attempts to change.
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.
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It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.
Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.
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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
