Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
Leo Tolstoy
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
Mike Krzyzewski
A world without love would be no world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.
Benjamin Franklin
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
Terry Pratchett
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.
Scott Caan
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
Anne Sullivan
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
George Orwell
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
Paul Nurse
A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
Stephen King
What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.
Orson Scott Card
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
Nicole Scherzinger
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
Bruce Springsteen
I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.
Ronald Reagan
New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain
In the end, we wear out our worries.
Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
Kahlil Gibran
I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
George Strait
New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
Dylan McDermott
Interest? What's money interested in?' 'More money
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
William Shakespeare
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.
Emily Blunt
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment
Voltaire
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
John Green
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
Lawrence Kasdan
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
Joan Jett
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?
Aldous Huxley
We're here to put a dent in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicÃdio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.
Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
Plato
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Nikita Khrushchev
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