Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Martin Sheen
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Henry Ford
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
Anne Lamott
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
Jeanne Phillips
No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
Lester Bangs
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Mohammed Naguib
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
John Charles Polanyi
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken
I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.
Shahrukh Khan
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
Sherilyn Fenn
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
Alexei Sayle
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.
Seth Rogen
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.
Hope Solo
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle
Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
Douglas Feith
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
Eva Green
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
James Dyson
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker
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