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#1. If you're not changing, evolving with the times, there's a pretty good chance that you're stagnant, dying, already dead, or just a rock in someone's shoe.

Ray Palla

#2. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.

Criss Jami

#3. He who wants nothing but to be happy already is.

Marty Rubin

#4. There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Martin Cohen

#5. We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

John Shadegg

#6. I already did a cave of horrors thing with you a few weeks ago, and it wasn't awesome.

Shannon Messenger

#7. Are you prepared to die?"
"I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious.

Haruki Murakami

#8. You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

Jimmy Carter

#9. Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!

Neal Shusterman

#11. I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.

Andrea Gibson

#12. As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.

David Levithan

#13. Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Zhuangzi

#14. To tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

Catherine The Great

#15. No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market ... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

Sanya Richards-Ross

#16. From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

Victor Francis Hess

#17. The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen.

Rumi

#18. She'd already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and
stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for
her.

Gena Showalter

#19. I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. It won't be an issue. The area we're modifying will have more breakout space, but I don't think it exceeds 1,000 feet. It's space we already have in the building, the public lobby area, which, in reality, we use now for breakouts and breakfast.

Steve Olson

#21. An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.

Jen Sincero

#22. God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling

Sunday Adelaja

#23. I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

Michael Moore

#24. You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

Stephen Batchelor

#25. In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to be useful to everyone

Jose Saramago

#26. I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

Ian Christe

#27. I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.

Sara Quin

#28. The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

Jon Brion

#29. The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.

June Goodfield

#30. They've already got a name for it, by the way. They're calling it the Flare.

James Dashner

#31. What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

Phylicia Rashad

#32. Don't look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.

Gerald Causse

#33. The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#34. As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Scott Lynch

#35. He's said he doesn't love him, said that he never will. The truth is he already does.

Leta Blake

#36. To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment.

Vivian Swift

#37. Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

Jeff Lindsay

#38. The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

Michael J. Fox

#39. You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

Billy Bob Thornton

#40. I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Tom Bissell

#41. Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!

Nicola Cornick

#42. There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Katey Sagal

#43. Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon,
ninjas scalin' your building,
No time to grab the gun,
I already got your wife and children

RZA

#44. A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.

Michel Faber

#45. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. - Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Michael Lewis

#46. The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.

Peter Dinklage

#47. He had received already a larger dose of life than he had bargained for, and he was scared.

Graham Greene

#48. If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#49. I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

Andrew Bird

#50. The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

Tom Gjelten

#51. If I didn't already love you, Jessica Chase, I'd fall in love with you all over again, every minute of every day.

Olivia Cunning

#52. When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!

Jillian Rose Reed

#53. He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God.

Miles Cameron

#54. She was born with the winter already in her bones.

Kate Atkinson

#55. Contrary to the popular stereotype of abortion-seeking women as promiscuous teenagers or child-hating professionals, around 6 in 10 women who have abortions are already mothers.

Katha Pollitt

#56. We moved her into the garage, made up a comfy bed and supplied a litter box, food and water. One day I came home from work and my husband had moved all of them into the house. We already had eight indoor cats so I wasn't really happy to have four more move in.

Kurt Schmitt

#57. And if she didn't know already that she liked that stupid offing Asian kid, she knew it now

Rainbow Rowell

#58. If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Abraham Lincoln

#59. We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

Paul Cellucci

#60. I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation

Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

#61. For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

Paul Allen

#62. My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

Armin Van Buuren

#63. Go outside occasionally to smoke a cigarette. It's a good way to make friends, it makes you look cool, and you're already dead on the inside, anyway.

Thought Catalog

#64. Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

Elaine Paige

#65. I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.

Deirdre O'Kane

#66. I noticed John had brought along a thermos of his coffee, this "favor" already qualifying as an all-nighter. I admit, the horrific burning sensation really did keep you awake.

David Wong

#67. One can only discover what has already come into existence.

Shirley Hazzard

#68. I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Loretta Lynn

#69. Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

#70. Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.

Stephen Chbosky

#71. I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.

Lauren Holmes

#72. Fine." He smirks at me. "Nice to meet you, Carrots," he says, looking directly at my hair. "Oh, I mean Clara."
My face flames.
"Same to you, Rusty," I shoot back, but he's already striding away.

Cynthia Hand

#73. Everyday that I'm away from you, my heart reaches out a little further

Waiting for you to grab and make it yours

Cause to me, you've already put it on layaway

so you can pick it up on a better day

Austin V. Songer

#74. The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge

Howard Marks

#75. Our kiss was electric and soft,
and tentative and certain,
terrifying and exactly right.
I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.
We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.
We already do.

E. Lockhart

#76. Whether our new start was going to end in success or failure didn't cross my mind. What I did know, and know consciously, was that it was already exciting.

Maya Angelou

#77. That thing I liked to call a brain had already flipped around the Out to Lunch sign.

Maris Black

#78. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

Etgar Keret

#79. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

#80. What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

William Ellery Channing

#81. If you remember, we have already shown that the only observers we know of are ourselves, biological entities whose interpretations of reality are not reality itself.

Joseph Kazden

#82. Take care of it," he demanded of Shanti over his shoulder. "We don't need a bunch of dicks wagging around this city."

"You already have a bunch of dicks wagging around the city," Shanti yelled back. "They're the ones barking orders.

K.F. Breene

#83. Transformation doesn't ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that's already inside of you. You only have to bloom.

Cheryl Strayed

#84. No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Terry Pratchett

#85. Others stumbled upon the stone by accident. They already had the gift, and their souls were readier for such things than the souls of others. But they don't count. They're quite rare.

Paulo Coelho

#86. It makes the ocean seem inconsequential, the moon unimportant, everything else nonexistent.
It fills all the empty spaces inside him, the ones he didn't know were there, and the ones he thought he'd already filled. And the future is laid plain before him. Their future.

Anna Banks

#87. Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

#88. [Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.

Marvin Ammori

#90. For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.

Ravi Zacharias

#91. They say, that to a certain extent, life's already set. the results stay the same, whether or not we do our best in life.

Yuuki Obata

#92. The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#93. When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

James Nesbitt

#94. Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

Guy Cook

#95. Be thankful for the blessings already on their way. And don't be surprised if one of your blessings is to be the blessing for someone else.

Charles F. Glassman

#96. I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Regan

#97. Optimization implies that we already know how to do something but that we now need to improve it. Innovation implies that we don't know how to do something, and searching for that knowledge is paramount.

Jim Highsmith

#98. Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

John Green

#99. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

(Already Gone)

Eagles

#100. There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Tim Rice