Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Angela Merkel
Movies are about escape.
George A. Romero
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
Spike Milligan
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
Peter Conrad
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
Alastair Campbell
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
Shirley Conran
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Sir Terence Conran
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
David Rockefeller
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
Russel H. Conwell
Humility is truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Eliza Cook
Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith
Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
James R. Cook
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
Michelle Pfeiffer
You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
Joseph Cook
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
Allen Klein
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock.
Paul Cook
Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
Robert A. Cook
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Timothy Radcliffe
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
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