Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I have not studied in this you read to show you my skill but to declare the truth, not to set forth myself, but to the glory of God.

Anne Bradstreet

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

Pitbull

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Plutarch

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Steve Jobs, Quote from 2008 inte

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

David Nicholls

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Evelyn Underhill

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Clint Eastwood

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Oscar Wilde

The more you give, the more you get.

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