To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Ben Kingsley
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
Anna Deavere Smith
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
Elizabeth Edwards
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson
"Less is more" is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies Van der Rohe.
Albert Camus
Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked.She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
John Green
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley
A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.
Stephen Richards
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
Georg Brandes
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Alice Hoffman
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Jodi Picoult
There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.
Stephen King
My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
Slash
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
Mos Def
I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!
Debra Messing
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
John Malkovich
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
Jane Austen
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Jackie Chan
I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
Fantasia Barrino
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
Carlos Santana
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade
Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,
I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
Ellie Goulding
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
Natasha Henstridge
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
Warren Christopher
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
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