I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young
Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.
Stephen Richards
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Noah Webster
A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.
Stendhal (MarieHenri Beyle), Le
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
Peter Steele
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Kahlil Gibran
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Old Mort
Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,and the hunter home from the hill.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem,
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson, (attribu
We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power
Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the A
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson, Speech at the U
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
William Shakespeare
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
Willie Nelson
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Anon.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde, attributed, no sour
Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
That phrase, loss of innocence, has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
Christopher Hitchens
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitch McConnell
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish proverb
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Lucy Powell
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Paul A. Samuelson
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Dianne Feinstein
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a vampire, which is to say, I am a bundle of repressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. It would be wrong to say that violent, tearing carnage does not come easily to me. It's tearing your throats out that doesn't come easily to me. Please don't make it any harder.
Terry Pratchett
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
Donny Osmond
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
David Bailey
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
Ashley Tisdale
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.no source for this, even a website dedicated to Cheers doesn't have it http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-66/epid-14345/
Anon., attributed to Cheers
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen
Samuel Johnson
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