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Most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!

I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never ...

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.

Bene disserer est finis logices.(The end of logic is to dispute well.)

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of ...

Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also." "Yes.

Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is ...

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. ...

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

Thanks Giving.The Indian and the White Man together.The pageantry spoke to me of civilization.

The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even ...

Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But ...

I have two different sides to my personality. I decided to give my fans what they want and who they are used to who is ...

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, ...

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 ...

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides ...

I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.

Always seein' 'wayoff dreams of silver-blue, Always feelin' thorns that slab and sting. Yet stampedin' never made a dream come true, So I ride around ...

Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn't made of real evil; just a ...

The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical ...

Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest ...

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way ...

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the ...

Let it be clear to all: Greatness belongs to those who have mastered the ability to focus relentlessly on their ambitions and act decisively toward ...

Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one

Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Peace is better than war. There's too much glorification of war and not enough glorification of peace, and especially not enough glorification of the importance ...

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, ...

Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife ...

You have to talk through the bratwurst from now on.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who ...

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for ...

Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love.

The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's ...

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. ...

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering ...

There is a crucial difference between a one-state solution and a binational state. In general, nation-states have been imposed with substantial violence and repression for ...

It was like... oral bribery or some shit. And not even for her. I was quite possibly the only teenage hormonal motherfucker on earth being ...

It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling ...

This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on ...

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a ...

When one felt like a wasp, one's main inclination was to sting.

In case I get busy in there and don't say it, thank you." "For?" Tate asked as his eyes softened. Logan squeezed his fingers, and ...

When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people ...

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second ...

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn't require much effort.

No holy place existed without us then,no woodland, no dance, no sound.Beyond all hope, I prayed those timelessdays we spent might be made twice as ...

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would ...

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who ...

It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, ...

Blackballed from guild roles for two generations, because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels. On

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of ...

You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't ...

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become ...

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to ...

Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never ...

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to ...

Death is the greatest justice, it never discriminates.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to ...

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle ...

You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we ...

Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to ...

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than ...

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described ...

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can ...

Since no two days are the same,we must be entering life's classroom when we wake up each morning

The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch ...

We begin with the stars, then ascend up and away out to the galaxy, the universe, and beyond. What did Buzz Lightyear say in Toy ...

Silly boy, you self-destroyer!

Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.

If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open ...

The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the ...

No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.

Be the catalyst for change. Empowering women, empowering humanity

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to ...

CROWNToo much rainloosens trees.In the hills giant oaksfall upon their knees.You can touch partsyou have no right toplaces only birdsshould fly to.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow ...

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that ...