I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Sir Winston Churchill
Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, being by nature more optimistic and by intellect a good deal slower, was still at the Clues are Important stage.
Terry Pratchett
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Andrei Sakharov
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
Samantha Morton
Cosmic Ordering is with you in all that you do.
Stephen Richards
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
Orson Scott Card
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.
Rian Johnson
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
Kahlil Gibran
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!
Joel Robuchon
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor rate was charity, and therefore a proof of their benevolence; at the same time, wages were kept at starvation level by a method which just prevented discontent from developing into revolution...It was plainly the certainty, derived from the old Poor Law, that actual death would be averted by the parish authorities, which induced the rural poor of England to endure their misery patiently...it taught them respect for their 'betters'.While leaving all the wealth that they produced, beyond the absolute minimum required for subsistence, in the hands of the landowners and farmers. It was at this period that landowners built the sham Gothic ruins called 'follies', where they indulged in romantic sensibility about the past while they filled the present with misery and degradation.
Bertrand Russell
Life is not fair get used to it.
Bill Gates
Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.
Steve Maraboli
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony Blair
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
Donna Shalala
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.
John Green
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.
Jenson Button
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
Mark Twain
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Charles Peguy
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
Jennifer Aniston
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
Jane Austen
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
George Whitefield
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