When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

Los mortales se olvidan de advertir que el tiempo pasa.

Jackson Pearce

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.

Bettina Ballard

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

John Lancaster Spalding

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Rashida Jones

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.

Stephen Richards

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

David O. Russell

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

Stefan Zweig, Magellan. Der Mann

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann von Goethe

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Arthur Henderson