The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
Georges Duhamel
A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
Albert Camus
'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.
Walter Dwight, The Saving Sense
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
Jennifer Aniston
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Jou
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Sarah Polley
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia AshtonWarner, Spinster
You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.
Jodi Picoult
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
Paula Danziger
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman, Memories and M
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
Louis Farrakhan
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
Neil Gaiman
The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin Disraeli
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
Billy Corgan
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
Jerry Saltz
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
I didn't get into skating to be famous.
Eric Heiden
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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