The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.â€
John Steinbeck
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Matthew Fox
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
Alan Pease
The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
Salisbury:Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,Being opposites of such repairing nature.York:I know our safety is to follow them;For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,To call a present court of parliament.Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?Warwick:After them! nay, before them, if we can.Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:Saint Alban's battle won by famous YorkShall be eternized in all age to come.Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:And more such days as these to us befall!
William Shakespeare
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
John Ensign
There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.
William M. Peck
There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
Mike Royko
There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
Whitney Houston
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.
James Bovard
Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
Orson Scott Card
You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.
John Peers
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Donna Tartt
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Westbrook Pegler
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Charles Peguy
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
John Leeson
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
André Gide
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Bertolt Brecht
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Alexander McQueen
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.''Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.
Cassandra Clare
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
Tyra Banks
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
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