Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
George Ebers
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie EbnerEschenbach
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
Sheila M. Eby
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton
There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
Kim Kardashian
I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
Novak Djokovic
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
Once you get used to thinking about Unit Tests as you write code, you tend to write code in nice tight modular pieces.
Stephan B Wessels
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
Richard Russo
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
Alexander Payne
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Douglas Horton
I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
Betty White
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
It is better to be faithful than famous.
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
All the resources we need are in the mind
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
Daniel Goleman
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
Donny Osmond
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool.
Will Estes
When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
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