If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Thomas Carlyle
I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
Andrea Arnold
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
History is the distillation of rumor.
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
Joe Flanigan
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon
The whole past is the procession of the present.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
Ani DiFranco
I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.
Jason Behr
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
William Law
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
The actual well seen is ideal.
As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
Juliet Stevenson
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
John Cleese
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Jean de la Bruyere
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope de Vega
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith
He that can work is born to be king of something.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
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