An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons
Ernest Hemingway
There's no one to stop you but yourself.
David Thomas
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita Roddick
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
J.K. Rowling
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
Betty Buckley
You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein
The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence.
Edward Thomas
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
Sue Johanson
I remember when I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
Rodney Dangerfield
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?
Gwynn Thomas
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
Isiah Thomas
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
John M. Thomas
Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
Stephen King
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Jack Welch
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
Kurt Thomas
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
Lewis Thomas
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Shirin Ebadi
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
Bertrand Russell
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Gustave Courbet
Yesterday I parked my car in a towaway zone...when I came back the entire area was missing.
Steven Wright
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch
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