He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Jonathan Larson
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
Liam Neeson
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Marianne Williamson
If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money, he'd jump out the window.
Chris Rock
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
Mark Twain
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!
Todd Phillips
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.
Christopher Hitchens
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
Placido Domingo
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Bo Bennett
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The challenge is to create a complete theory for every element of the physical reality.
Albert Einstein
I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
Patti LaBelle
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
Ron Wyden
Nature is always behind the age
Oscar Wilde
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
Bryan Ferry
so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.
Jodi Picoult
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
Mike Johanns
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Ellen Terry
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Bear Grylls
I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.
Ricky Skaggs
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Francis Parker Yockey
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
Liz Phair
It's embarrassing to be human.
Kurt Vonnegut
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
Jane Austen
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Terry Pratchett
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel Butler
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history
Abraham Lincoln
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