But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!
Stephen Richards
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
Camille Paglia
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Marco Rubio
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.
Scottie Pippen
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
Pope Pius XII
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
Michael Sheen
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
Maxwell Planck
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Is there no way out of the mind?
Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette
Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!
Steve Maraboli
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
C.S. Lewis
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Patricia Cornwell
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
Shania Twain
Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.
Victor Hugo
Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho
While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
John Green
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
King Abdullah II
Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.
J.K. Rowling
The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
Mike Weir
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