Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
Anthony Trollope
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves
Samuel Johnson
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
John P. Kotter
In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
Theodore Tronchin
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
Roy Blount, Jr.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
Alvin Lee
I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.
Christopher Hitchens
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible
George Bernard Shaw
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
Richard M. Daley
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
C.S. Lewis
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
Dayo Okeniyi
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
Joni Mitchell
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!
Andriy Shevchenko
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.
Jodi Picoult
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