The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
Kim Collins
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C.S. Lewis
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Blaise Pascal
I don't know. But I know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want , not .I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
Jodi Picoult
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
Enrique Iglesias
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
Isaac Hanson
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Tim Robbins
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
Anne Tyler
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Andrew Bird
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
George Hickenlooper
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William Hazlitt
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Louise J. Kaplan
Good temper is an estate for life.
Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
LaoTzu
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
Judy Biggert
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Barbara Kingsolver
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
Kerry Washington
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Eric Burdon
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
Bell Hooks
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Philip Larkin
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
Chris Christie
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam Chomsky
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Samuel Smiles
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
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