El Hombre de negro huÃa a través del deseirto y el pistolero iba en pos de él.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.
Plutarch
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
Wade Boggs
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
Ryan Phillippe
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
James Taylor
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Benjamin Carson
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
Hilary Swank
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.
Nicki Minaj
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
Frank Carlucci
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
Sonja Sohn
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
Puff Daddy
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
Elihu Root
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
Frank Rich
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barry Zito
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard
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