In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?
There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.
Source Unknown
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
Rachel Stevens
A bad conscience has a very good memory
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
Donna Brazile
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
Camille Paglia
Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.
I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
Ezra Koenig
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
Tom Hanks
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
Sydney Schanberg
We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves.
A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?
I don't follow the food trends.
Eric Ripert
If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani
Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.
Kelly Osbourne
Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.
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