I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y.'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said.'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
John Green
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
Vito Fossella
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
Kahlil Gibran
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
Paul Feig
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
John Oates
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
Stephen King
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison
Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff
Cassandra Clare
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
William Shakespeare
Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.
Stephen Richards
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Vladimir Nabokov
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
Virginia Woolf
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade
Benjamin Franklin
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Ned Rorem
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Source Unknown
Well said, old mole!
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
Sam Mendes
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
Frances O'Grady
My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.
Allyson Felix
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Prince
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
Mike Pence
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
Harri Holkeri
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
Lyle Lovett
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.
I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
Cary Grant
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
R. Kelly
When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.
Steve Maraboli
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.
Paul Oakenfold
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