It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Joseph Murray
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Christopher Lasch
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
John Hughes
There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
Christopher Walken
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin SainteBeuve
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
Dan Lipinski
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell
It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
Reba McEntire
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Eric Hoffer
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Alastair Campbell
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp
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