Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.
It's always good to be underestimated.
Donald Trump
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
Martha Plimpton
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
Rene Cassin
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.
Lisa Loeb
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
Alan Dershowitz
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
Robert Ballard
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.
Amanda Seyfried
The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Timothy Garton Ash
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Anna Paglia
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
Satchel Paige
Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
Malin Akerman
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Ad
My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.
Jordana Brewster
If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
Jake Johnson
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
Dallas Willard
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott
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