Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Dean Koontz
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Thomas Mann
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
Katherine Heigl
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Marya Mannes
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
George Eliot
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John Green
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people.
I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it
Mahatma Gandhi
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
Kate Mulgrew
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped...
J.K. Rowling
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege
Plato
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
Orson Scott Card
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
Samuel Johnson
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
Freeman Dyson
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll
I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
Douglas Wilson
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
Virginia Woolf
To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.
Ricky Schroder
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
Alex Pettyfer
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
Ingrid Newkirk
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