Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

Hailee Steinfeld

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions

Samuel Johnson

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

You're a dream. Like everything else.

Kelly Creagh

Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends.

Steve Maraboli

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Franz Kafka

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Blaise Pascal

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

John Polkinghorne

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

Mark Bittman

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

Roy Lichtenstein