Energy and persistence alter all things.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. Rowling
We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
Sara Blakely
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Denis Diderot
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
Richard Branson
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
Virginia Woolf
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
Anne McCaffrey
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.
Dean Ween
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
Charles Dickens
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman
It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
Emily Blunt
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
Albert Camus
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
Baz Luhrmann
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
Aristotle
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.
Suze Orman
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
Archie Panjabi
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Jerry Seinfeld
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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