Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Nothing is impossible to the man who will.
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
Zack Snyder
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
Intent and action are the fuel and vehicle in the journey of creation.
Steve Maraboli
History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
Alex Mitchell
Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Don G. Mitchell
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell
No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.
Neil Gaiman
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
Chaz Bono
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
John N. Mitchell
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
Joni Mitchell
I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.
Kathy Najimy
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
Epicurus
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw
Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up,and smile for a satellite picture.
Steven Wright
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise...and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia
C.S. Lewis
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
Tracey Ullman
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Aldous Huxley
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
Mohammed Morsi
Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.
Ernest Hemingway
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Terry Pratchett
It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner
If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
Paulo Coelho
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylor
I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character
Thomas Jefferson
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