Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell Lowell
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
Nick Clegg
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Sue Townsend
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Endurance is the crowning quality...
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessingsgive us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Without discipline, there is no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Gene Robinson
Enemies are so stimulating.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
Carlos Ghosn
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
Chris Christie
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll
We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
Lucy Powell
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Pierre de Coubertin
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson
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