With an apple I will astonish Paris.
With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.
Martin Van Buren
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds
Orson Scott Card
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
J. J. Abrams
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham
By guts I mean, grace under pressure
Ernest Hemingway
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
Cassandra Clare
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
King Abdullah II
There is a universal law; INTENT is the cause, your life is the effect.
Steve Maraboli
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
Bear Grylls
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
J.B.S. Haldane
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.
Stephen Richards
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
Mike Huckabee
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H.R. Haldeman
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
I talk to myself, especially in the car.
Chris Pine
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
Helmut Jahn
Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
Julio Iglesias
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale? someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
Michael Hutchence
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
J.K. Rowling
Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand.
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Nathan Hale
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Jack Welch
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Alexander Hamilton
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
William Hague
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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