In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
Bjork
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
Richard Russo
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Norman McLaren
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel de Cervantes
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
Tom Felton
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
Suge Knight
Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.
Lionel Richie
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
Hedy Lamarr
I do not believe abortion should be legal.
Herman Cain
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
Jeff Mangum
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Lewis Thomas
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
Liam Neeson
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
Abbie Cornish
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Bernadine Dohrn
Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.
Paul G. Thomas
It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.
Sherry Stringfield
Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.
I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
Pauline Thomason
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore
Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.
Alice Thompson
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