The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
Jeffrey Sachs
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
Christopher Meloni
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth II
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
Grace Kelly
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
Regis Philbin
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss
I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
Soleil Moon Frye
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
Neil Cavuto
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Marvin Olasky
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
Jeff Goodell
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Dhani Harrison
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.
Jane Seymour
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
Ellen Barkin
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
Jackson Browne
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