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There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were ...

Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and ...

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority ...

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

My back slams against the oven door, and I cover my face and cry. I cry so hard I can't breathe.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to ...

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of ...

I love horsepower.

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend ...

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

Good," said Arthur."See?" said Ford."No," said Arthur.

The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him ...

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I ...

I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on ...

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video ...

The dream is so pleasant: to extend a limited sub-portion of yourself into a simulated world and pretend for a while that you are blissfully ...

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?""You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might ...

You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, ...

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. ...

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of ...

Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make ...

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There ...

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, ...

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. ...

LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, ...

I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing ...

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. ...

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on ...

Danny shook his head, amusement relaxing the tense line of his mouth. 'Is that all you think about?''No! Sometimes I think about food. And beer. ...

You see, the main problem with our overspending and breaking budgets isn't money. It's trying to fill a need inside ourselves with things instead of ...

Gabriel's prayers of thanks were spontaneous and heartfelt. Here, in this room, he had an embarrassment of riches-a pretty, intelligent wife, who had a very ...

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in.Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans.

Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have ...

I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a ...

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

The dawn of beauty always comes after night.

I'm going to be gentle with you, Liz. We're going to treat this delicately. I'm going to let this happen slowly, let us fall slowly. ...

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and ...

I'm a Corgi. Note the capitalization. Many humans neglect to use the capital C, but you really should.

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 ...

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and ...

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs ...

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there ...

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a ...

This is not a story. There is no romance in here, nor are there page-turning, thrilling moments. Rather, this book is about a dream both ...

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed ...

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

But Krishna is flexible when it comes to who a person worships," I say. "He said that whatever god a man or woman worships with ...

Sharks are so stupid. They swam right up to the boat, and they couldn't even tell that I was chumming the water with ketchup, rather ...

To the naked eye, he's decent kissing height if I wear platforms, though of course a live test will be required before official certification of ...

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one ...

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which ...

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace ...

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were ...

For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, ...

We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on ...

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

I filmed an interstitial with Allisyn Ashley Arm and Matthew Scott Montgomery one day. And we made up this weird thing 'cause we had to ...

We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people ...

I believe [ ... ] that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal ...

We're sending you best wishesAnd hope your day goes wellAnd that you'll find some memoriesWith stories you can tellOf how you had a marvelous timeAnd ...

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as ...

As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do ...

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of ...

Because the people and countries who are wealthy enough to pay for things like really small classes have a hard time understanding that the things ...

Lorris ? As in Logan and Morris ? They fucking Brangelina'd themselves?

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for ...

I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never ...

I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, "Oh, no, where's that big ...

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading ...

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

The only person you should try to be better than is the one you were yesterday

The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God.

With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best ...