Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
Horace
My family is more important than my party.
Zell Miller
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas Jefferson
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Earl Wilson
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that.
Steven Wright
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North Whitehead
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Henry David Thoreau
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
Lauren Graham
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
She hated herself more than she could express.
Jane Austen
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
Dean Rusk
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy Graham
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Virginia Woolf
Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide.
Tom Rusk
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
Jim Wallis
I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.
Tony La Russa
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
Bill Russell
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