Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
Thomas Kempis
Man proposes, but God disposes.
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
Richard Perle
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
Dan Rather
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
Manal al-Sharif
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
John Hench
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Vijay Mallya
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Quintilian
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.
Paz de la Huerta
I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.
Anna Paquin
There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.
A. H. K. Boyd
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
Amy Jo Johnson
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
William Boyd
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
Gary Oldman
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
John F. Boyes
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
Michel Gondry
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
J. F. Boyse
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
Maya Lin
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Count Boytzwnburg
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Fogg Brackell
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
Eleanor Tomlinson
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.
Peg Bracken
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Jane Seymour
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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