Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.
Richard Holbrooke
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
James McGreevey
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
Charlie Kaufman
It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
Goran Persson
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn Monroe
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Martha Beck
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Henry Kravis
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
Beth Ditto
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Suzanne Vega
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
Shania Twain
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
Juvenal
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
Stephen Fry
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
Jeff Bridges
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.
Craig Bruce
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
Alexandra Paul
Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.
Frank Robinson, In Sports magazi
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel,
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