You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
Todd Solondz
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
William Butler Yeats
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane Austen
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
J. K. Rowling
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire
And say my glory was I had such friends.
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
Vannevar Bush
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
Robert Orben
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had a problem. I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem...I don't know who to thank!
Rodney Dangerfield
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
Kamisese Mara
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
Rachel Weisz
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.
Abraham Lincoln
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David Thoreau
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
Mark E. Hyman
All doors open to courtesy.
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy
With foxes we must play the fox.
An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
John Kenneth Galbraith
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality.
Nancy Pelosi
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.
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