I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
Gary Barlow
There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
Robert Mueller
I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
Jim Balsillie
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.
Thomas Jefferson
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
C.S. Lewis
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
Helena Bonham Carter
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
Leo Tolstoy
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.
Glenn Beck
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--
Cassandra Clare
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
Jeff Goodell
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
Aldous Huxley
I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up
Rodney Dangerfield
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Ray Charles
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer
Thomas Carlyle
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
Sting
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
will.i.am
Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
Terry Pratchett
Live the life you've dreamed.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
William Law
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)
Ronald Reagan
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Albert Camus
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing
Jane Austen
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning
On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
Anthony Daniels
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Simon Callow
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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