The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
Golda Meir
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
Amy Waldman
Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Mos Def
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
John Polkinghorne
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Amy Winehouse
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
William P. Leahy
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
Jessica Simpson
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
Frank Ocean
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
Terry McAuliffe
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Jim Rohn
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton
For every promise, there is price to pay.
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
Thomas Friedman
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
Bubba Watson
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
Callan McAuliffe
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
What you become directly influences what you get.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.
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