A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic myshadow.
Steven Wright
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Simon Wiesenthal
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
Freddie Mercury
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.note: this was supposedly quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer on July 16, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was tested
Hindu Spiritual, Bhagavad Gita
I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
Mary J. Blige
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Pr
I'm scared of the unknown future.
Bethenny Frankel
This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.
William Blake, The Everlasting G
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Laura Swenson
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
David Ogden Stiers
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Albert Camus
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Elean
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
I definitely believe in marriage.
Michael Strahan
I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.Executed (shot) for helping allied soldiers to escape from Brussels to neutral territory in Holland during World War I.http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/
Edith Cavell, Last words
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
Orson Scott Card
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Jerry Seinfeld
Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. Delaney
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Sicilian Proverb
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Orlando Bloom
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren
Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of others
Ambrose Bierce
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
Charles Dickens
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
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