Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
John M. Barrie
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
Idris Elba
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.
Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess Diana
I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'
Jordin Sparks
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser
They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.
Harvey Korman
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
J. William Fulbright
I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
Heather Wilson
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
Richard Dreyfuss
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Tom Wilson, Ziggy
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Golda Meir
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
Vin Diesel
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
Donald Trump
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
Louise Brown
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edward W. Howe
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
King Abdullah II
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Anon.
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William Rose Benet
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, attribu
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
African Proverb
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
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