The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them. the look seemed to say.
Cassandra Clare
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead, that it has escaped me.
Blaise Pascal
I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
Michael D. Higgins
One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Malcolm Muggeridge
You're alive, that means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
Neil Gaiman
If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.
Stephen Jay Gould
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
Jenny McCarthy
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.
Kirstie Alley
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being
C.S. Lewis
I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.
Andy Milonakis
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
What I love best in life is new starts.
Karl Lagerfeld
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
Anne Hathaway
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
David Duchovny
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers
Thomas Carlyle
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
John Green
America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
Ronald Reagan
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
John Knowles
Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
Beth Ditto
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
Ambrose Bierce
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
Douglas Wilson
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
John Podhoretz
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
George Nethercutt
My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
Gabrielle Reece
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
Carter Burwell
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
Craig Ferguson
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
Sandra Lee
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