Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Toby Young

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

Every man's life (and... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal... love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy.

Eleanor Farjeon

I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and that's such a big part of who I am.

Charlotte McKinney

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Nora Roberts

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

Jonathan Acuff

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Candice Swanepoel