There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
Julie Walters
I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
Eric Davis
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley
I hope I have important things to say.
Elizabeth Edwards
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
English Proverb
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Ernest Hemingway
Still waters run deep.
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
Leo Tolstoy
I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
Sherri Shepherd
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
How would your life be different ifYou stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the dayYou shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Steve Maraboli
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt Romney
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
Mahatma Gandhi
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
Jonathan Kozol
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Paul Wolfowitz
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Mark Twain
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
Miguel Indurain
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Jodi Picoult
Two wrongs do not make a right.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
Orson Scott Card
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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