It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
Aesop
There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'
Rian Johnson
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
Marvin Gaye
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
David Hockney
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia
Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
Esther Williams
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Harold Hulbert
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
Bobby Hull
I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
Nick Cannon
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
Dave Chappelle
Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
Cordell Hull
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
Lauren Conrad
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
Josephine Hull
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
Tim McGraw
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
Sir Richard Hull
The end never really justifies the meanness.
E. Duane Hulse
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
Dweezil Zappa
Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.
J.J. Hulsgen
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
Frederick Soddy
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
John Warnock
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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