Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
Austin O'Malley
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
Thomas Jefferson
But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
Donna Shalala
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
Robert Morgan
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)
Kurt Vonnegut
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
Gijs de Vries
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
Christopher Hitchens
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
Marcus V. Pollio
Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself
Benjamin Franklin
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.
Reggie Watts
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Bobby Scott
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
Keanu Reeves
If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.
Stephen Richards
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Jean Racine
I do love country music.
Kesha
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
Ray Liotta
What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
J.K. Rowling
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
Ed Turner
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
Nancy Grace
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
Heywood Broun
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
Josh Radnor
Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present
Paulo Coelho
One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
Albert Einstein, Letter to Max B
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda Meir
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Charles R. Brown
We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
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