Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
I love life because what more is there?
Anthony Hopkins
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
Andrea Arnold
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
History is the distillation of rumor.
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
Joe Flanigan
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon
The whole past is the procession of the present.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
Ani DiFranco
I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.
Jason Behr
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
William Law
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
The actual well seen is ideal.
As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
Juliet Stevenson
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
John Cleese
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Jean de la Bruyere
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope de Vega
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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