If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
It was quite impossible to describe.Here is what it looked like.It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
Terry Pratchett
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
James Fenimore Cooper
However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.
Craig Kilborn
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.
Brenda Lee
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Mstislav Rostropovich
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending.
Steve Maraboli
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
Stefanie Powers
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
Harvey Fierstein
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
Novak Djokovic
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Maynard James Keenan
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Norman Cousins
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather
How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
George Bernard Shaw
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.
She was so fat that she has her own postal code.
Rodney Dangerfield
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
George Eliot
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna Southcott
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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