In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
Becky Sharp
The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.
Paulo Coelho
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
Phyllis George
I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
Tom Sharp
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
Peter Chernin
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.
Hermione had taken his hand again and was gripping it tightly. He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, now taking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying to regain control. He should have brought something to give them, and he had not thought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. But Hermione raised her wand, moved it in a circle through the air, and a wreath of Christmas roses blossomed before them. Harry caught it and laid it on his parent's grave.As soon as he stood up he wanted to leave: He did not think he could stand another moment there. He put his arm around Hermione's shoulders, and she put hers around his waist, and they turned in silence and walked away through the snow, past Dumbledore's mother and sister, back toward the dark church and the out-of-sight kissing gate.
J.K. Rowling
It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.
Dr. Sharpe
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver
My girlfriend was no bargain either. She used to braid her armpits.
Rodney Dangerfield
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
Al Sharpman
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
Rev. Al Sharpton
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles Dickens
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
David Crystal
Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
Susan Shaughnessy
(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
Terry Pratchett
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Doug Coupland
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
Randy Harrison
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!
Richard Hammond
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the
Albert Einstein
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
Audre Lorde
Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
Puff Daddy
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
Picabo Street
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
John Podhoretz
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar Wilde
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