The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
Perry Como
Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.
Stephen Richards
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Leland Stanford
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?
Christopher Hitchens
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar Wilde
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you?Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.
Neil Gaiman
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Stephen King
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo Tolstoy
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think.
J.K. Rowling
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
Harry Seidler
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Andrea Dworkin
Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.
Caroline Wozniacki
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.
Steven Wright
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def
You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
Orson Scott Card
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. Lewis
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.
Deidre Hall
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Albert Camus
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Plato
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
I put hardwood floors on top of walltowall carpet.
It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.
Bindi Irwin
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
Michael Bloomberg
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
John Drinkwater
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Secondat
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