If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
Delphine de Girardin
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
J. J. Abrams
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
Stephen King
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once
Aristotle
I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.
Alicia Sacramone
Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
Ambrose Bierce
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
Sandra Bernhard
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry Pratchett
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
Evan Hunter
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Dave Barry
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.
Oscar Wilde
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
Paulo Coelho
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Victoria Abril
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato
Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen.
Christopher Hitchens
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
Alex Winter
You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
John Krasinski
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
Ronald Reagan
I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'
America Ferrera
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
Alan Ladd
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine
Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party.
Charles Dickens
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig
My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.
Rodney Dangerfield
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich
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