We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.
J. G. Ballard
Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
Orson Scott Card
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
Emma Thompson
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Seve Ballesteros
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
Adrienne Rich
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
John H. Speke
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
George Orwell
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
Leo Tolstoy
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
Paul Kane
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.
Stephen Richards
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
Jane Austen
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
Andrew Davies
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle Obama
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Tim Finn
What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.
J.K. Rowling
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
Michael Phelps
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
Ann Richards
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
Kurt Vonnegut
Where is your angel now?
Cassandra Clare
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
Peter Mayhew
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
Cynthia Nixon
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
Emma Bonino
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