It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.
Virginia Woolf
Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.
Amos Lee
El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia, bien de sentimiento.
Jane Austen
When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.
Buddy Rice
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
LeBron James
What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
Terry Pratchett
When you suffer, think not on how you can escape suffering, but concentrate your efforts on what kind of inner moral and spiritual perfection this suffering requires.
Leo Tolstoy
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Stafford Cripps
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott Card
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
Neil Simon
Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.
Plato
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor Adorno
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.
George Orwell
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
V. S. Naipaul
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
James Cash Penney
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
George Eliot
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
Niki Taylor
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
John Green
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
Ernest Hemingway
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusser
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
Abraham Lincoln
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
Craig Bruce
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desire not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, we are like ignorant children who want to continue making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
Tony Campolo
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
Denise Mina
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.
Michael Tilson Thomas
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
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