The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Taylor Swift

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

Joel Robuchon

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Thomas Kempis

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Paul Ryan

If a task has once begun. Never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small. Do it well or not at all.

Anon.

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

Mike Norton

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

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I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

Busta Rhymes

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

Stephen Richards

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Dorothy Parker

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

Chelsea Clinton

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami