He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
You're not a man, you're a machine.
George Bernard Shaw
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
John Hawley
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
Elizabeth Edwards
In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.
John Sexton
If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Jodi Picoult
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And, yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
James Lovelock
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
Kevin Smith
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Samuel Johnson
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
Constance Baker Motley
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
I like perfume and flowers.
Donatella Versace
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions
Mahatma Gandhi
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
Peter O'Toole
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'.
Albert Camus
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body.
Dan Millman
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C.S. Lewis
I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.
John Cameron
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
Jane Goodall
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
Robert Carlyle
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.
Paul Prudhomme
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.
Meister Eckhart, The Art of Lovi
I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.
J.K. Rowling
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