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I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it ...

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet ...

Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?

The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ...

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself ...

Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens ...

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I ...

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree ...

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

God is great. God is faithful. And His love is set upon us. We come as we are, with trembling trust.

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

The record is plain: the cartel system retarded the development of a domestic synthetic rubber industry, and, in so doing, jeopardized national security.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each ...

Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and groundedness, ...

Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced ... my fuse went.

May God define your path.

Jane had it right: He'd traded his bravery for his ambition. And if he didn't make this right - if he didn't learn to suppress ...

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't if you are wise talk down to any ...

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead," the woman said. "I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. ( ... ) They must have larger ...

Sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open ...

Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, ...

Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other ...

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy ...

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other ...

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths

The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for ...

Where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made ...

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long as you have freedom, let the rest ...

Honey mustard is obviously not good for my mental state.

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take ...

So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you ...

I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And ...

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

The lessons learned hardest were the lessons learned best.

I've lived my life devoid of the whole teenage angst for so long, I'm not sure I can handle all this. I'm not built dor ...

Finally, if she were to accept this capital now, it was in no way as payment for her maidenly disgrace, for which she was not ...

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if ...

The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of ...

Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.

It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been ...

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for ...

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The best way to become poor is to give nothing.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good ...

The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in ...

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding ...

Life is full of unanswerable questions including how to live and what to live for. It takes extreme courage to live honestly by a person's ...

Sexual role play provides a creative platform for us to safely express certain aspects of our shadow self.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

Queen Jane Seymour's epitaph, inscribed in Latin, translated roughly to: Here lies Jane, a phoenix Who died in giving another phoenix birth, Let her be ...

Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see ...

Hearing without listening is like seeing without a vision

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

Our minds see things that our eyes cannot. I suppose something continues to exist until the mind that sees it no longer exists.

Remember what I told you about your journey. You need to be fearless because every road you travel on will bring something about yourself that ...

It's downright amazing; that the inhumanity rampant in every human being.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth ...

The support of our Soul and the joy that it bestows is sufficient to our need and carries us forward.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. ...

But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, ...

I think I'm allowed to compliment my wife." "Only if you behave." "So is me telling you that your ass in that dress makes my ...

It's what they call it when they suck the soul out of your mouth.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the ...

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked

Until now, I never noticed how much fantasy had to do with reality.

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

Sam, she was smart as hell. And she knew stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. She also felt stuff. Oh, man, could Sam feel. Sometimes ...

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one ...

Trees spit scarlet and orange leaves to the earth, turning the fields to fire.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on ...

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, ...