Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?
I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!
Steve Maraboli
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Jessamyn West
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.
Stephen King
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor Adorno
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
K. Eric Drexler
The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Jerry Brown
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.
Terry Pratchett
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
Alton Brown
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Dixie Lee Ray
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers fortwins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, buthe didn't obey.
Steven Wright
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
George Saunders
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C.S. Lewis
I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
Sarah McLachlan
The Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work.
Stephen Richards
Before you can do something you must first be something.
Johann von Goethe
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Stephen Hawking
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.
Gordon Gould
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm
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