If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl Buck
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sometimes you need to get lost in order to find yourself.
Yossi Ghinsberg
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
Bennett Miller
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
Tony Hancock
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Buddha
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
Lynn Swann
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
William Butler Yeats
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.
Joe Lieberman
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
Laura Schlessinger
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
Fred Brooks
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
Ben Hecht
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
Jeff Goodell
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
Tony Visconti
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
Mink Stole
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
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