The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.

Nicholas Sparks

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.

Stephen Ambrose

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Sibert Cather

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

Billie Eilish

I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&ampB. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.

Ruben Studdard

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Mitch Hedberg

Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly

Solomon Schimmel, The Seven Dead

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Erwin W. Lutzer