A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
Paul Dirac
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
Walter Ulbricht
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.
John Green
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
John Carpenter
Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.
Steve Harvey
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
William Shatner
When intent and action mate, the offspring is success.
Steve Maraboli
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.
Princess Masako
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawn as white as driven snow
William Shakespeare
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Anon.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
Peter Singer
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
Oscar Wilde
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
Nicholson Baker
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
Moon Unit Zappa
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
Bertrand Russell
Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.
John O. Brennan
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
Rachael Ray
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
Mark Twain
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Terri Clark
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
Chevy Chase
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,And therefore I forbid my tears.
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
John Dean
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