The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Alan Greenspan
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
Voltaire
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
I want to be a loving mom.
Tori Spelling
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
Harvey S. Firestone
Canada's the best country in the world.
Justin Bieber
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people,
Terry Pratchett
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Steve Jobs
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
Clary: What are you doing here, anyway?Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-Clary: I'm going to bed.
Cassandra Clare
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
James Iha
We fear the thing we want the most.
Robert Anthony
[from ]In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.
Leo Tolstoy
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
Alton Brown
When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.
Jonathan Cain
I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
Red sky at night, the city's alight.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein
The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
Rainn Wilson
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
Maria Monk
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
John Mahoney
It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.
Neil Gaiman
My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.
Slash
I have an education, I went to college, you know?
Nicole Polizzi
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse
Bertrand Russell
Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.
Guy Ritchie
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde
I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
Ray Dalio
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Jim Palmer
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