Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
Jenny Eclair
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.
Steven Wright
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
Jennifer Hudson
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
Ian St. John
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
Jodi Picoult
And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.
Michael Bloomberg
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.
Voltaire
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.
Eric McCormack
She is a peacock in everything but beauty
Oscar Wilde
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who dream - or don't dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way.
Stephen King
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Mario Batali
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
Albert Camus
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Marco Rubio
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
Charles Dickens
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
Julie Andrews
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
The decision by the seven-man majority in Roe v. Wade has so far been made to stick. But the Court's decision has by no means settled the debate. Instead, Roe v. Wade has become a continuing prod to the conscience of the nation.
Ronald Reagan
Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
Jeff Goodell
A man of courage is also full of faith.
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
Joni Mitchell
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