Life is about becoming more of who you really are....
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Leonard Cohen
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
Eliot Engel
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
David Walliams
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
Mary-Kate Olsen
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.
Victoria Justice
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Peter Venkman
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
Christopher Dawson
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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