The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
Orson Scott Card
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.
Henry David Thoreau
While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Proverb
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.
Ray Manzarek
We all romanticize the people we adore.
John Green
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
Paul Feig
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
Guy Lafleur
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Marshall McLuhan
One may go a long way after one is tired.
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
James Dyson
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
Wilhelm Dilthey
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Rachael Ray
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin Luther
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
Alan Dershowitz
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
Julian Assange
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
Dee Dee Myers
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Aldous Huxley
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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