It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
Albert Einstein
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
Jeffrey Kluger
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
John Shelby Spong
You see what you expect to see, Severus.
J.K. Rowling
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
Forest Whitaker
When everything you see appears in dark, gloomy shades, and seems baleful, and you want to tell others only bad and unpleasant things, do not trust your perceptions. Treat yourself as though you were drunk. Take no steps and actions until this state has disappeared.
Leo Tolstoy
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
Thomas Jefferson
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...
Albert Camus
I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.
Cassandra Clare
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.
Bertrand Russell
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
Sting
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
Hillary Clinton
Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
Wavy Gravy
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
Michael Gove
There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
Blaise Pascal
I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
Bobby Vinton
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
John Woo
Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
Aldous Huxley
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
Alanis Morissette
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
John Green
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.
Shoghi Effendi
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Bob Woodward
I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.
Courteney Cox
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Robert Barclay
Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.
Sebastian Vettel
Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
Isaac Hanson
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
Georgina Chapman
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
Nick Rhodes
The first law of attraction is use Cosmic Ordering now.
Stephen Richards
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rosegarden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial we.
Mark Twain
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Ed Bradley
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