The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
Laurence Sterne
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
Linda Festa
When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.
Art Fettig
The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
Ludwig Feuerbach
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Paul Karl Feyerabend
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Henry A. Wallace
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Johann G. Fichte
I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
Salma Hayek
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
Carlos Ghosn
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
Keanu Reeves
My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
Danny Pudi
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
Donny Osmond
I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
Kirstie Alley
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing
I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
Kirsty Coventry
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
Henry Cuellar
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Ed Markey
To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
Jennifer Garner
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
Alain Prost
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner
People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
Michael Clarke Duncan
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Paul Davies
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
Mira Sorvino
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Rob Pike
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
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