Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moonEnjoys the open blossoms as they strawTheir beauty for his taking, boon for boon.And I do lift my aching arms to you,And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,And I do weep for very pain of you,And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence,
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin C. Smith
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Benjamin Disraeli
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
Tony Gilroy
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
Joshua Slocum
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
Andy Cohen
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.
Al Pacino
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Richard G. Scott
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas Sowell
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard
There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.
Bob Hoskins
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
Virginia Foxx
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
Ellie Goulding
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
Cristina Kirchner
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
Vanessa Paradis
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
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