Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
You can't underestimate the power of fear.
Patricia Nixon
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--
Cassandra Clare
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
Samuel Johnson
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
Rick Derringer
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.
Joshua Nkomo
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.
William Shakespeare
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
Alex Noble
The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
Joe Nichols
Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
Today, in twelve countries, young men are resisting conscription and refusing military service. They are the pioneers of a warless world.
Albert Einstein
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble
What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?
Roden Noel
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Sir Sidney Nolan
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
Nick Nolte
If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
Nonpareil
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George Eliot
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Richard Rosen
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
Norman Lear
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Mark Twain
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham
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