There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
Beth Ditto
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
Hilary Swank
I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
Willie Aames
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
A good end is the reward of the pious.
Abdu'l-Baha
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.
Chris Lowe
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
Monica Seles
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Zi
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
William Hague
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
David Lloyd
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
C.S. Lewis
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy
Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris
I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
Albert Einstein
Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
Sarah Palin
I used to work at a factory where they made hydrants; but you couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Orson Scott Card
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
George Eliot
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy
William Shakespeare
Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d'autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je marcherai, c'est tout. Et s'il faut un jour me battre, n'importe quel jour en vaut un autre pour mourir. Parce que je ne vis ni dans mon passé ni dans mon avenir. Je n'ai que le présent, et c'est lui seul qui m'intéresse. Si tu peux demeurer toujours dans le présent, alors tu seras un homme heureux.
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical
Thomas Jefferson
Clever people study in order to know more. Undeserving people study in order to be more known.
Leo Tolstoy
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
I put a new engine in my car, but didn't take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles an hour. The harmonica sounds *amazing*.
If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.
Terry Pratchett
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
Oscar Wilde
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
Henry David Thoreau
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas Carlyle
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