Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
Christopher Wren
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?
Bill Nye
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.
Tim Holden
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Barbara Walters
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
Michael Nutter
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.
Dottie Walters
To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.
Hellmut Walters
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Roger Ebert
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.
J. Donald Walters
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Willie Nelson
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Aaron Eckhart
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
Lily Walters
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
Rick Perry
If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.
Roy W. Walters
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Bill Walton
Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.
Donald Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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