Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
If you're not confused, I don't think you understand.
Charlie Munger
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
Wilbur Smith
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
Sean Hampton
It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think
Denis Waitley
For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.
Jenson Button
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Alice Walker
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
Jim Ramstad
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Michelle Obama
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
Dick Cheney
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
Brian Eno
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. In the movie Braveheart
William Gordon Wallace
Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?
Horace Walpole
This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.
Kurt Busch
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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