When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
Voltaire
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Marcus Valerius Martial
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
George Murray
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Virginia Woolf
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Mark Strand
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
Steven Curtis Chapman
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
Preet Bharara
That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Thomas Carlyle
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
Bruce Springsteen
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Baldwin Spencer
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Bernard M. Martin
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Leo Tolstoy
I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
Vincent Cassel
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
Billy Martin
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt
Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
John Green
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
Luke Scott
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
Brett Ratner
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Aldous Huxley
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
John Bruton
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
The other day, I was walking my dog around my building...on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
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