You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
Stacie Orrico
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
Jeffrey Sachs
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
Christopher Meloni
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth II
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
Grace Kelly
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
Regis Philbin
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss
I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
Soleil Moon Frye
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
Neil Cavuto
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Marvin Olasky
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
Jeff Goodell
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Dhani Harrison
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
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