If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
Stevie Wonder
The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for peace through strength has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
Christopher Hitchens
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
Ellen Wood
We all boil at different degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses.
Robin Wood
[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
Ron Wood
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.
Cousin Woodman
To be happy man would have to make himself immortal; but, not being able to do so, it has occurred to him to prevent himself from thinking of death.
Blaise Pascal
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
Julia Woodruff
There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Robert Woodruff
Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.
General Robert E. Woods
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
Jodi Picoult
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.
Ralph L. Woods
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Leonard Sidney Woolf
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
F. W. Woolworth
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
Elizabeth Wordsworth
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Archbishop Derek Worlock
I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
James A. Worsham
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Charles Dickens
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Abraham Lincoln
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
There is lots of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of the humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.
Steve Jobs
One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.
Ronald Reagan
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
Steve Maraboli
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; as an old writer quaintly says, A dog is the only thing on this earth that luvs you more than he luvs himself.
Dr. Lauder Lindsay, in his Physi
We are all spiritual beings having a human experience.
Anon., personal
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
Dean Koontz, From the Corner of
Where would we be if throughout history, our greatest minds had feared that which they could not confirm? Embrace the unknown with caution, but not with fear.
Karyn Somerfield, (quotation sub
You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feelings. And if you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.
John Fowles, The Magus
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
Leo Tolstoy
With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you always want to review your dialogue, years later, with a particular pool or riffle or bend, and to live back through the layers of experience. We have been to this river before and together. We have much to relive.
Nick Lyons, from Bright Rivers
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