Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
Marc Andreessen
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.
Christopher Walken
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
Daniel Craig
The man for whom law exists the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
Henry David Thoreau
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
Kenneth L. Pike
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion must so be the object and center to which all things tend, that whoever knows the principles of religion can give an explanation both of the whole nature of man in particular, and of the whole course of the world in general.
Blaise Pascal
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Bertrand Russell
All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achie
Aristotle
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Ryan Gosling
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman
I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
Sheryl Swoopes
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading, and experiencing fiction through reading, is something that gives us empathy. And that, I think, is vital. It takes us out of our lives. Without reading, you're stuck with one life. Reading gives you more than one life. It gives you an infinite number of lives, which I think is wonderful. Or at least, not infinite, but as many as there are books on the shelves.
Neil Gaiman
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
Dennis Miller
I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
John Legend
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
Steven Wright
For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.
Casey Kasum
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?
Simon Mainwaring
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
Jodi Picoult
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
Gretchen Wilson
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
Felix Baumgartner
He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
Thomas Jefferson
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul Ricoeur
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