It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey
If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.
Tim Heidecker
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Dame Edith Sitwell
Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Paul Farmer
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
Lucy Hale
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
William Hague
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
Drew Barrymore
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
Herman Hesse
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
Adam Smith
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.
Chloe Moretz
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold Bennett
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.
The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
Peter Singer
With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. Ballard
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
Bethenny Frankel
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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