Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Burt Lancaster
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Isaac Newton
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
Hans Hofmann
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development
Oscar Wilde
I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
Janet Fitch
Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
Sharon Moalem
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary Oldman
Live to learn and you'll learn to live.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
Fatima Masood
Wissenschaft ist Macht.
Roger Bacon
... to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to the floodplains to the open ocean, across the world... they came up with a number- 3 trillion a year- a headline-grabbing figure that was almost twice the global gross national product.
Joe Roman
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
Bobby Flay
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
Thomas Jefferson
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge
Go bow thy head in gentle spite, Thou lily white, For she who spies thee waving here, With thee in beauty can compare As day with night.
James Matthews Legaré
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
Vik Muniz
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
Ernest Istook
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Mary Oliver
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
Martin Buber
His name never appeared in the papers. The world maintained its traditional wall Round the dead with their gold sunk deep as a well, Whilst his life, intangible as a Stock Exchange rumour, drifted outside.
Stephen Spender
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David Eagleman
rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
Patricia Cornwell
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean Paul Sartre
Your children are a perfect example of your beauty, because it starts from within...
John Ryzak
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
Stevie Smith
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.
David Morrell
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
Elizabeth Gaskell
I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.
Michael Perry
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
Tabitha Suzuma
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
Marty Rubin
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
J.K. Rowling
When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word when it ceases to be a just a measurement of timebut instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts, that is a reflection of true love.
Steve Maraboli
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing...maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
Follow the best way of life you possibly can, and habit will make this way suitable and pleasant to you.
Leo Tolstoy
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and
Samuel Johnson
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg
George Bernard Shaw
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