We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
Colette Bowe
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs
The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
Harvey Fierstein
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
I think everything depends on money.
Alan Bean
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
Mike Huckabee
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.
Lauren Conrad
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.
Charlotte Ross
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
Diane Abbott
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.
Jennifer Lopez
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
Ezra Bowen
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
Francis Bowen
... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
Jim Bower
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
Andrew Shue
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett
Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal
I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
Juliana Hatfield
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama
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