One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.
Dan Quayle
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
Florence Griffith Joyner
The peace dividend is peace.
I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.
Carrie Underwood
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Josh McDowell
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Dawn French
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.
John Donne
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Nido Qubein
I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.
Rebecca Black
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
James Broughton
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Pasquier Quesnel
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
William Bartram
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Where one door closes, another opens.
Don Quijote
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Arthur Henderson
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Philippe Quinault
What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Thomas De Quincey
You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.
Bethenny Frankel
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.
Jane Pauley
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
Richard Wagner
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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