What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.
Terry Pratchett
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
Grace Slick
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
Eric Hoffer
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIII
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
Benjamin Spock
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
Gary Vaynerchuk
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.
Chris Chocola
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney
The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Liam Payne
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Jane Smiley
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.
Heidi Klum
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
Charlie Hunnam
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
Billy Graham
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
A man by himself is in bad company.
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
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