In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
Jeremy Rifkin
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair
C.S. Lewis
All serious daring starts from within.
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Chris LeDoux
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
Terry Pratchett
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Paul Twitchell
Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
Jane Goodall
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
Ed Smith
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Toni Morrison
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Steven Wright
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Lafcadio Hearn
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
John Yoo
The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
But I was very much into sports when I was a child.
Eva Herzigova
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton
I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
Barbara Feldon
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Brendan Francis
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
Yakov Smirnoff
Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.
Henry Waldorf Francis
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