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If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but ...

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and ...

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. ...

Fear inhibits our ability to understand,doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in ...

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place,Don't look up into the skies;Instead look down and squint your eyes.Squint your ...

What do you have in this car?" he asked."What do you mean, like weapons?""That would be a good start.""Well, I 've got a mini Swiss ...

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have ...

Your knight in shining aroumor may just be an idiot in tin-foil.

Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can meet ...

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be ...

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with ...

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the ...

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

There comes a time when you have to confront your past, chuckle at your mistakes, pick up your peace and KEEP marching forward.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do..

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for ...

I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it ...

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas ...

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the ...

Just follow that one road the whole time! ... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume ...

Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things ...

I would not want to be a politician ... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and ...

For as long as space remains,For as long as sentient beings remain,Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid ...

I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her

Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four ...

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came ...

For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break ...

Apparently, the Athena Parthenos had wanted them to visit a place with educational value, because she'd landed right next to a historical marker that read ...

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at ...

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they ...

As I've said, ARPA had been created in response to Sputnik, and one of its key organizing principles was that collaboration could lead to excellence.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you ...

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural ...

No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.

[A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. ...

If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end ...

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can ...

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know ...

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, ...

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own ...

He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put ...

I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm ...

If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become ...

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

When corruptors blame each other, the strongest wins.Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang.

All fingers are not same in length but when they are bent all stands equal. Life becomes easy when we bend and adjust to situations.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

A lot of teenagers, when they're in the business, they want to rebel, because they've been so tied up and stuff. I'm not too tied ...

Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory ...

Sometimes life is truly woeful.

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that ...

The man doesn't look like he belongs in a world of parking tickets and potted begonias and pencil sharpeners. But he can learn, the way ...

She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have ...

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, ...

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on ...

When a company sets out to participate, rather than win, it will inevitably fail to make the tough choices and the significant investments that would ...

The scent of her skin salty with sweat but sweet at the same time, like swimming through an ocean of roses.

It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a ...

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?

Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She ...

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.

I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

With my beloved I play the game of love . If I win, he is mine. If I lose I am his...

I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, ...

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

I had no idea you could be a specialist at awkward conversations

Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still others, ...

I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We ...

Don't cry," Samarra whispered, "Nothing ever happens to the brave.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.