Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Sophocles
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Stephen King
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann von Goethe
Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
Robert Brady
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
Shia LaBeouf
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J.K. Rowling
I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
Jared Leto
...or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard.
John Green
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
Ryan Gosling
[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.
Christopher Hitchens
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Albert Schweitzer
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;
Samuel Johnson
How would your life be different ifYou pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the dayYou let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.
Steve Maraboli
My work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen Hawking
Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.
Terry Pratchett
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
George Orwell
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
Kerry Healey
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdallah II
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
Shania Twain
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, and defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants of God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
Wavy Gravy
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
P. J. O'Rourke
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
Angelina Jolie
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
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