The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
The most important thing in life is the path to perfection, and what kind of perfection can exist if a person is proud and satisfied with himself?
Leo Tolstoy
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.
Tim Holden
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
Sting
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Giorgio Armani
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Aldous Huxley
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
Barbara Bush
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
Joe Barton
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
William Collins
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
Friedrich Nietzsche
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
Brooke Shields
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
Thomas Jefferson
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Annette Funicello
Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.
Ambrose Bierce
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
Julie Andrews
Sometimes, all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.
Stephen Richards
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Catherine Deneuve
These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
Lucy Powell
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
Jodi Picoult
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Jerry Saltz
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot
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