We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Kinky Friedman

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

Buck Baker

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

Jodi Picoult

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Kahlil Gibran

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Serj Tankian

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

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