Suffering is part of the divine idea.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Jane Austen, opening lines to Pr

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Marcus Aurelius

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Janet Fitch

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

Joaquin Phoenix

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

William Shatner

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Miley Cyrus

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Ovid

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Cassandra Clare

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Fred Rogers

Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.

Alexander Cockburn

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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