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.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra
I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.
William Kempe
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
Charlie Sheen
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
Sara Blakely
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
Shimon Peres
never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
Jane Siberry
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.
Bridget Moynahan
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
Bear Bryant
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
Serj Tankian
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
Maurice Strong
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou
Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground. It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you havent been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death Calais would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that Haiti is going to be written on my heart.
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
Rush Limbaugh
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.
Norman Borlaug
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.
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