Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Sue Townsend
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Endurance is the crowning quality...
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessingsgive us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Without discipline, there is no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Gene Robinson
Enemies are so stimulating.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
Carlos Ghosn
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
Chris Christie
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll
We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
Lucy Powell
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Pierre de Coubertin
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
Richard Rogers
When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
Tony Parsons
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
Dennis Prager
I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
Nicole Kidman
Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
Curt Schilling
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Margaret J. Wheatley
It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini
There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
Marc Cherry
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
John Tyler
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
Barbara Billingsley
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Fahey
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
Lynn Redgrave
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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