He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
Jane Smiley
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
Source Unknown
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
Rob Corddry
The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
Tom Glazer
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
Tim Conway
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Mitt Romney
A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Forgotten is forgiven.
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.
Brendan Fraser
He who forgives ends the quarrel
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
John Frankenheimer
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
People who talk much say nothing.
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
Monica Seles
The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
James Buchan
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
Mario Batali
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
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