Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
Melissa Leo
You don't become a chef to become famous.
Eric Ripert
Only fools are positive.
Moe Howard
I hate to travel with stuff.
Manolo Blahnik
I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
Christopher Nolan
My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.
Stephanie Cutter
But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
Kathy Griffin
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Tryon Edwards
I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.
Sherri Shepherd
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.
Carrie Underwood
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
Louise Slaughter
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
I have not failed. I???ve just found 10,000 ways that don???t work.
Albert Einstein
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Frank Ocean
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Patti Stanger
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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