Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Jim Valvano
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.
John Podhoretz
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Evita Peron
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
Dick Morris
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
Ruby Dee
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach
In order to win, you must expect to win.
A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
Michael Newdow
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
Jerry Saltz
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.
Diablo Cody
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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