Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Phil Lesh
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Oscar Wilde
All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
Kurt Sutter
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Eliot Spitzer
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.
Cassandra Clare
I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
Larry Hagman
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
Doug Coupland
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
William Shakespeare
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie
America is too great for small dreams.
Ronald Reagan
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
Susan Orlean
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
J.K. Rowling
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
Evelyn Glennie
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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