There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving

The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Jodi Picoult

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Harvey

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Leo Tolstoy

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Paulo Coelho

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Sarah Jessica Parker

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Manny Pacquiao

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

David Sarnoff

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Edward Koch

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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach