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.
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Paz de la Huerta
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
Pamela Stephenson
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
Barry McGuigan
every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.
Jodi Picoult
I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.
Ken Hensley
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
Newt Gingrich
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
Frank Waters
I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
Robert De Niro
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Samuel Johnson
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Agnetha Faltskog
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
Henry L. Stimson
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
Chris Van Hollen
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
Neil Gaiman
When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
Jarvis Cocker
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere
Ronald Reagan
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. [] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.
C.S. Lewis
Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.
Terry Pratchett
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
Virginia Woolf
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
Donny Osmond
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Charlotte Davis Kasl
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
Mira Nair
That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop
Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives...
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark Twain
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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