The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
Otis Blackwell
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.
Cassandra Clare
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead androtten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Ziggy Marley
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
I bought a perfect second car ... a tow truck.
Rodney Dangerfield
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
Todd Barry
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Carol Ann Duffy
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Edward Grey
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Norman Rockwell
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
Jason Mraz
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
Stephen Harper
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, being by nature more optimistic and by intellect a good deal slower, was still at the Clues are Important stage.
Terry Pratchett
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Andrei Sakharov
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
Samantha Morton
Cosmic Ordering is with you in all that you do.
Stephen Richards
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
Orson Scott Card
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.
Rian Johnson
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
Kahlil Gibran
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