A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.
John Green
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
The proof of the pudding is in the Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards
We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
Because you're my friend, wingnut.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself
Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right.Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time
Terry Pratchett
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
Georges Clemenceau
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
Carrie Brownstein
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.
Neil Gaiman
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.
Elisha Cuthbert
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
Clement of Alexandria
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Roberto Clemente
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don't need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be.
Carol Clewlow
Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
Orson Scott Card
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
De Witt Clinton
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Robert Clive
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore
My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
Thank you for making this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
Robert Mueller
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Glenn Close
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
Elder Cloward
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