We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
Eamon de Valera
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
James Truslow Adams
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Norman Douglas
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Potter Stewart
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
Nikki Reed
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Erik Satie
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Gautama Buddha
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
Samuel Wilson
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
Kelly Osbourne
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
Philip Pullman
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Chad Harbach
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.
Shigeru Miyamoto
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
Simon Winchester
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga
I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.
Rosie O'Donnell
AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
Jane Pauley
Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
Tippi Hedren
You totally value and respect your body as you get older.
Jenny McCarthy
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
Stephen Harper
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Chris Barber
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Martin Amis
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
James Buchan
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