I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Ernie Harwell
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Fred G. Gosman
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
Rodney Atkins
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
Gregory Corso
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
Jack Kilby
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
Mark Strand
I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.
Keith Thibodeaux
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
Anthony Trollope
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Francis Parker Yockey
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsk
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
Charles W. Chesnutt
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.
Henry Chester
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
James Hillman
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Anne Lamott
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Madame Chiang KaiShek
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman
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