Quotes For October 14

#1. Be yourself, you will not get a second chance to.
- Daniel, Age 12, Munich, Germany, October 14

R.J. Palacio

#2. peace until the Schleswig-Holstein question was definitely settled. STRASBOURG, October 14 - Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was

Various

#3. I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

Patrick Demarchelier

#4. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Lady Gaga

#6. Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

Katherine Harris

#7. I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)

Adam Savage

#8. I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy.

Ichiro Suzuki

#10. A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Mark Helprin

#11. NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian.

Pat Roberts

#12. The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

Gerry Adams

#13. We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

Selma Dabbagh

#14. Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Katherine Mansfield

#15. the right. Smith had watched the area and this parking spot in particular every Sunday for the last month. Nobody ever came to the building or parked in the back on a Sunday afternoon. He expected

Roger Stelljes

#16. Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Ken Adam

#17. Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the heart. It must be spoken aloud. It is designed for that. And until that is done these plays have not been read, have not been used, have not been born.

Paul Roche

#18. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?

Leslye Walton