The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.
Mark Twain
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya
Friedrich Nietzsche
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Jacqueline Bisset
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Oswald Chambers
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
Big Boi
Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine
Victor Hugo
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
Nikki Haley
The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.
Aldous Huxley
No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
William Samuel Johnson
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Jon Bon Jovi
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.
Steve Maraboli
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may
Charles Dickens
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.
Kurt Vonnegut
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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