He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Thomas L. Masson
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
Dan Glickman
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
My life was changed in one breath from God.
Donna Summer
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Brian Masters
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
Peter King
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given
Albert Camus
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Edgar Lee Masters
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Cotton Mather
China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
Paul Wolfowitz
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Harry Mathews
If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land ontheir feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a catand drop it?
Steven Wright
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
Let us cultivate our garden.
Voltaire
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
William Mathews
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer
Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
William Shakespeare
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman
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