All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.
Jessica Szohr
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
Samuel Johnson
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
Ray Bradbury
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
LaToya Jackson
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman Macewan
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)
Charles Dickens
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
Jon Meacham
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Lee Iacocca
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Albert Camus
But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
Levon Helm
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn Monroe
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Ernest Hemingway
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
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