All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
Sonia Johnson
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Benjamin Carson
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
John W. Vessey, Jr.
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.
Timothy Bottoms
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
Margaret Forster
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
Ray Harryhausen
I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen
As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
Dan Lipinski
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence Olivier
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Today is a king in disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.
Jose Bergamin
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.
Glenn Howerton
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Barbara Corcoran
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
Jesse Jackson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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