Commitment is an act, not a word.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Ron Reagan
When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence.
Stephen Richards
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
Nick Wechsler
If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.
I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
Jane Austen
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
Aldous Huxley
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin
We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
Christopher Hitchens
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
C.S. Lewis
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
Joseph Barbera
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian Eno
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.
Rodney Dangerfield
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams
One reason why the Enemy found this so east was that, without knowing it, I was already desperately anxious to get rid of my religion; and that for a reason worth recording. By a sheer mistake - and I still believe it to have been an honest mistake - in spiritual technique I had rendered my private practice of that religion a quiet intolerable burden. It came about in this way. Like everyone else I had been told as a child that one must not only say one's prayers but think abut what one was saying. Accordingly, when I came to a serious belief, I tried to put this into practice. At first it seemed plain sailing. But soon the false conscience (St. Paul's 'Law', Herbert's 'prattler') came into play. One had no sooner reached 'Amen' than it whispered, 'Yes. But are you sure you were really thinking about what you said?'; then, more subtly, 'Were you, for example, thinking about it as well as you did last night?' The answer, for reasons I did not then understand, was nearly always No. 'Very well,' said the voice, 'hadn't you, then, better try it over again?' And one obeyed; but of course with no assurance that the second attempt would be any better...I set myself a standard. No clause of my prayer was to be allowed to pass muster unless it was accompanied by what I called a 'realization,' by which I meant a certain vivedness of the imagination and the affections. My nightly task was to produce by sheer will power a phenomenon which will power could never produce, which was so ill-defined that I could never say with absolute confidence whether it had occurred, and which, even when it did occur, was of very mediocre spiritual value.
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
The great and the humble have the same misfortunes, the same griefs, the same passions; but the one is at the top of the wheel, and the other near the center, and so less disturbed by the same revolutions.
Blaise Pascal
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Doug Coupland
You're just as sane as I am.
J.K. Rowling
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
George Eliot
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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