How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Alvin Ailey
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Vinoba Bhave
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mahatma Gandhi
Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
Neville Chamberlain
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
David K. Shipler
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
Betsey Johnson
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
Martin Sheen
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Richard Branson
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.
Conrad Black
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Michael Shermer
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
Jimmy Fallon
I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.
Carson Kressley
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
John Millington Synge
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Potter Stewart
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae West
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran
We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
Rosa DeLauro
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
Abdul'-Baha
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
Boomer Esiason
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway
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