At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
Edward W. Howe
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press which was one half of the pun about 'covering' had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?
Christopher Hitchens
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Gianni Versace
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.
Jon Ronson
My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.
Chloe Moretz
What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm!
Rodney Dangerfield
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois
Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
David Lee Roth
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...
Stephen King
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
Dan Farmer
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
John Hutton
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Terry Pratchett
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
Barbara Kingsolver
You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.
John Green
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
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