Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
Brigham Young
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
Todd Barry
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
Uma Thurman
Love the giver more than the gift.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
Kurt Vonnegut
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
David Axelrod
He is bound to you, said the Queen. But does he love you?
Cassandra Clare
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
Billy Graham
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers.
C.S. Lewis
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life....Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.
Leo Tolstoy
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Juliana Hatfield
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.
George Orwell
India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.
Yoshiro Mori
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
Jodi Picoult
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
Larry Hagman
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
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