Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
The precondition to freedom is security.
Rand Beers
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
John C. Hawkes
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
Bruce Sterling
Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
Roy Barnes
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
Harry Connick, Jr.
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Vera Farmiga
Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.
James Hansen
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike
For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.
Marcel Carne
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Abdul Kalam
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.
Sarah Polley
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Van Morrison
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
Chris Rock
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
Alexandra Paul
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
Martin Scorsese
Challenge is good for any relationship.
Darren Criss
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Steve Allen
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
Laura Hillenbrand
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
James Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock F
We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
Victor Garber
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.Also seen as: You cannot prevent the birds of worry and care from flying over your head. But you can stop them from building a nest in your head.
Chinese Proverb
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding, Rough Magic Lec
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, ch. 11, 1
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Dorothy Parker
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Dorothy Thompson, The Courage To
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
George Washington
Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West, This Real Night
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
Evan Davis
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...
Sarah Bernhardt
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