If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo, Radar says, I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.
John Green
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
Portia de Rossi
It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Oscar Wilde
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
Rick Perry
Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
Stephen King
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
Lynn Johnston
What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men
Charles Dickens
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Denis Johnson
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Jack Welch
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
Michael Caine
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.
Virginia Woolf
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
John Millington Synge
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.
Allyson Felix
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Thomas Jefferson
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
Anna Lindh
They both go together you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.
Kiana Tom
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
Neil Gaiman
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Albert Brooks
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
Kurt Vonnegut
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
T.H. White
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
Blaise Pascal
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
J.K. Rowling
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
Daniel Yergin
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
Jennifer Lopez
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
Orson Scott Card
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