Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
C.S. Lewis
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
Conrad Hall
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
Paul Thomas Anderson
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks
In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.
Stephen Richards
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.
David Gower
The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
Ashlee Simpson
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
Bill Ayers
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
Ayelet Waldman
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis de Sade
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Daniel D. Palmer
Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
Isaac Asimov
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
Suzanne Somers
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard Arnold
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
Donald Evans
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.
Deepak Chopra
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.
Marianne Williamson
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
Kristen Stewart
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.
Justin Guarini
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Matthew Arnold
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