Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul Vaneigem
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John Green
Be larger than your task.
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
I met the surgeon general he offered me a cigarette.
Rodney Dangerfield
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
Jeremiah Wright
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques Maritain
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.
Michael Apted
Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
Neil Gaiman
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
John Polkinghorne
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham
I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
Ellie Goulding
I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
Samantha Morton
The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.
Ernest Hemingway
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.
Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
Stephen Richards
Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
Jeremy Renner
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
Paulo Coelho
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt
There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
I fear the vermin that shall undermine
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
Being seventy is not a sin.
Golda Meir
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
We all are blind until we see
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