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Carve your name on hearts, not on marble -- Charles Spurgeon
Carve every word before you let it fall. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. -- Shannon L. Alder
Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form. -- John French Sloan
I'm off to find my world, my dreams, Carve my niche, sew my seams, Remember, as I sail my streams- I'll love you all the way. -- Brooke Mueller
Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live. -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. -- Charles Spurgeon
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. -- Jonathan Coe
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not. -- Jonathan Coe
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie. -- Patti Smith
I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter. -- Georgina Chapman
Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other. -- Karen Kain
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. -- William Shatner
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own. -- Emma Roberts
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? -- Robert Browning
I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing. -- Dave Franco
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. -- Kathleen Hanna
Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you. -- Georgette Mosbacher
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone! -- Jennifer Damiano
You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. -- Mehmet Oz
Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else. -- Jen Kirkman
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs. -- Stewart Udall
I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in. -- Robert Redford
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are. -- Nancy Gibbs
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia. -- John Howard
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. -- Thomas Kean, Jr.
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world. -- Damien Rice
The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. -- Ina Garten
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space. -- Lea Salonga
Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? -- Ilsa J. Bick
With your hands carve out your own destiny. -- Guru Nanak
We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens. -- James Hillman
All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue. -- Thomas Buchanan Read
The best way to carve is not to split. -- Laozi
A falling drop at last will carve a stone. -- Lucretius
Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree. -- Adam Ross
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. -- Julian Huxley
Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang -- James Patterson
If you want data to survive, carve it in rock. -- Jack McDevitt
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. -- Georges Simenon
You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel and carve yourself into excellence. -- Mark F. LaMoure
On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME. -- Hunter S. Thompson
A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. -- Stephen King
There is plenty of room for us all to succeed and carve our own path. -- Kathryn Budig
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Diversify. But carve out 10 to 20 percent for the most unloved part of the market: emerging markets value. -- Robert D. Arnott
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.' -- Ali Smith
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. -- Rumi
Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path. -- Jessica Simpson
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. -- Bill Monroe
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do -- Rosanne Cash
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Donâ??t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself. -- Bill Courtney
I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars... -- Ted Hughes
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." -- Soren Kierkegaard
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. -- Arthur Miller
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own. -- Price Pritchett
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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. -- Stevie Smith
The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive. -- Greg Gutfeld
What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests. -- Barack Obama
If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 -- Lady Gaga
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. -- Samuel Johnson
Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks. -- Carl Andre
Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom) -- James Patterson
Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God. -- Sheila Walsh
The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love. -- Michael John LaChiusa
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. -- Gautama Buddha
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. -- Gail Caldwell
It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way. -- Tobin Bell
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. -- Peter Weir
We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices. -- Eric Maisel
I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand? -- Steig Larsson
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color. -- Joan Didion
[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this. -- Ilana Glazer
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. -- Arthur Golden
Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone. -- Rumi
I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it." -- Columbus Short
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater. -- Chris Carmack
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails... -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session. -- Felicia Day
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails... -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. -- Rufus Wainwright
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get. -- Anne Ortlund
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor. -- Jude Law
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. -- Kate Forsyth
You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It's certainly safer than keeping it in the bank! -- Nicole McKay
If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife. -- Robert Sietsema
I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit. -- Emily Blunt
We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit. -- Estelle
What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind. -- Kim Stanley
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good. -- Dallas Willard
The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called. -- Philip Ridley
If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty. -- Jamie Zawinski
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes. -- Dorothy Wordsworth
I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path. -- Blake Lively
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way -- Jacques Barzun
The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice. -- Chris Avellone
Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair. -- Paul Ryan
It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. -- Peter Drucker
Keep your money in the first place. Let`s make our companies competitive and let`s make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what`s good for Washington carve outs. -- Paul Ryan
I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time. -- David Letterman
My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project. -- Rob Thomas
I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. -- V. S. Naipaul
Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words. -- Lev Grossman
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. -- Urs Fischer

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