Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
Corrine Brown
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
Louis de Bernieres
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Ai Weiwei
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners
Robert T. Kiyosaki
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
Marco Rubio
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin
In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'
Anna Chlumsky
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
You know I guess one person can make a difference.
Stan Lee
Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw, O'Flaherty,
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R.R. Martin
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us.
Rene Magritte
Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.
Liu Wen
Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
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