I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
Jason Reitman
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
John B. S. Haldane
Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
Cornel West
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Bear Grylls
Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
Ethel Merman
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
Alain de Botton
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin
Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
Nancy Pelosi
What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
Earl Warren
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
David Fincher
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Valerie Jarrett
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
Charles Foster Bass
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
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