The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
Pete Townshend
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
Paulo Coelho
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
William Hazlitt
In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Jason Mraz
Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.
Woody Harrelson
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
Voltaire
The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
Barbara Mandrell
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman
Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
Calvin Klein
Those who can command themselves command others.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.
John Green
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
When you part from your friend,you grieve not;For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence,as the mountain to the climberis clearer from the plain.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Samuel Johnson
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
The late Bill Nye once said I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.
Vito Fossella
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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