Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
Jane Campion
What I tell you three times is true.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Taylor Momsen
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
George Tenet
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
Ray Floyd
So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
Petra Nemcova
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
Youssou N'Dour
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.
FoYan
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
Tim Foley
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
Will Foley
I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
Gwen Stefani
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Mary Parker Follet
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.
G. W. Follin
I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
Leona Lewis
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Henry Fonda
I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. Bush
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
Laura Ingraham
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
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