I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Samuel Johnson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bob Schieffer
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
Matthew Fox
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
Idina Menzel
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
This wired generation is kind of cool.
LeVar Burton
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
Jeff Hawkins
It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
Rachel Bilson
What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other
Jane Austen
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
Chris Christie
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.
April Winchell
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them...I destroy them.
Orson Scott Card
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
Jane Campion
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, Why were you going so fast? I said, See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing? This steers it.
Steven Wright
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
Thomas Frank
We pardon to the extent that we love.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
Steve Jobs
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach
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