There is no unique picture of reality.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste
George Bernard Shaw
she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it.
Virginia Woolf
A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain.
Leo Tolstoy
It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.
Seann William Scott
She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Neil Gaiman
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
Daniel Goleman
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
William Shakespeare
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
Debra Winger
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Jordan
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start (She looks like a Winnifred to me), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.
Terry Pratchett
I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.
Roseanne Barr
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Jeff Koons
An empty mind is easy to feed.
Stephen Richards
Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
Cassandra Clare
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Christopher Darden
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
Rider Strong
Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.
Oscar Wilde
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
Hugh Jackman
love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...
Stephen King
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
Ian Mckellen
I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.
Steve Maraboli
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
Jane Austen
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
ABORT! ABORT!Isabelle, are you insane?-Alec
A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows. That I believe to be the true ground of democracy. I do not believe that God created an egalitarian world. I believe the authority of parent over child, husband over wife, learned over simple to have been as much a part of the original plan as the authority of man over beast. I believe that if we had not fallen, patriarchal monarchy would be the sole lawful government. But since we have learned sin, we have found, as Lord Acton says, that all power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The only remedy has been to take away the powers and substitute a legal fiction of equality. The authority of father and husband has been rightly abolished on the legal plane, not because this authority is in itself bad (on the contrary, it is, I hold, divine in origin), but because fathers and husbands are bad. Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like the rest of us. Even the authority of man over beast has had to be interfered with because it is constantly abused.
C.S. Lewis
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