It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Orson Scott Card
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
John Quincy Adams
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Americas heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.
I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.
Chloe Moretz
Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spirit of the age, or the comprehensive beneficence of the founder, none can be named more deserving of the approbation of mankind than this. Should it be faithfully carried into effect, with an earnestness and sagacity of application, and a steady perseverance of pursuit, proportioned to the means furnished by the will of the founder, and to the greatness and simplicity of his design as by himself declared, the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, it is no extravagance of anticipation to declare, that his name will be hereafter enrolled among the eminent benefactors of mankind. Whoever increases his knowledge, multiplies the uses to which he is enabled to turn the gift of his Creator.
Merlin's pants!
J.K. Rowling
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard Adams
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Martha Beck
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Thomas Adams
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?
Kurt Vonnegut
Faith is a continuation of reason.
William Adams
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade
we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
Wale
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
...and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
Stephen King
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Angela Davis
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
John Henry Newman
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
Willie Morris
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
Jodi Picoult
The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Lord Acton
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
Laura Linney
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Ken Adelman
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Ambrose Bierce
Life is lived on the edge.
Will Smith
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Thomas Carlyle
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
To be human means to feel inferior.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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