Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
Kahlil Gibran
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
Ambrose Bierce
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
Ernest Gaines
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert Camus
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.
Kristen Stewart
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
John Hope Franklin
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
Holly Near
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
Mike Tyson
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Lord Thomas Dewar
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'
Stephen Hunter
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
Paulo Coelho
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne Williamson
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
Jim Capaldi
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Sandra Day O'Connor
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Jim Carrey
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!
J.K. Rowling
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Dennis Prager
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Philip K. Dick
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
Joan Jett
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