A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt Romney
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
Jane Seymour
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark of his safety.
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Barbara Tuchman
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
Vince Gill
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
Amy Grant
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
Fred Thompson
I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
Bo Schembechler
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.
Paul Scherer
God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
Simon Mainwaring
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.
Mike Fitzpatrick
When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
John Sununu
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
James Cash Penney
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
David Wilkerson
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
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