It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.
Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
Laurence J. Peter
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
Mick Taylor
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. PetitSenn
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
Matthew Fox
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
Karen Hughes
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little Richard
I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox
We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
Eden Phillpotts
I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
Novak Djokovic
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
Jenny McCarthy
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
George Whitefield
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
Ben Barnes
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown
Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Everything you can imagine is real.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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