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I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got

to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! Bob Livingston Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them. Marlene Dietrich To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Kenneth L. Pike There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged

rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah. Marc Maron It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. Svetlana Alliluyeva The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath. Pope Benedict XVI Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises. Lionel Richie

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been

able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. Major Taylor The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. Britney Spears In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. Bobby Scott Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. Imelda Marcos An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. Mary Douglas

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art

lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead. Harold Rosenberg We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. George H. W. Bush Baseball was the darling of all sports back then. Marion Motley It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. Stan Dale There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. Ellis Peters

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in

this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. Og Mandino My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. Jason Statham Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. Andrew Carnegie I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it. Don Baylor There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now. Utada Hikaru

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and

the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally. Boris Spassky Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. Frank Luntz Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear. Arthur Frank Burns

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the

past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. Lillian Smith All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. David Attenborough All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of

being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. Ian Mckellen As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record. Shannon Hoon The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. Richard V. Allen Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. Sidney Hook

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing

much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. Lawrence Clark Powell The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. John Bradshaw I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown. Kathy Griffin I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me. Anna May Wong

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy

steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. George W. Bush I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James A. Baldwin If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets. Peter Lynch

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and

see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. Richard Russo The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. Richard Bach Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry. Earl Monroe To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. George MacDonald The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive. Bill Joy

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must

get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be. Judd Gregg Pure innovation is more gross than error. George Chapman No man is an island. No man stands alone. Dennis Brown The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. Willa Cather Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able

to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. Rudy Giuliani A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. Jules Renard But where are the snows of yester year? Francois Villon Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. Florence Kelley Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I

first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament. Tim Buckley You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247. Reggie Jackson A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. Albert Pike Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records. Peter Noone You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Ted Turner

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and

intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin. Garry Kasparov I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it. Andrea Corr We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where

neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. Albert Camus Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. J. B. Priestley Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. Baltasar Gracian I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic. Dudley Moore Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works. Frederick Wiseman

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got

lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil. Peter Brook Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good. Lee Scott It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. Otto Hahn

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always

found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. Wallace Shawn One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. Bryant H. McGill One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. Norman Vincent Peale An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions. Levi Strauss I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused. Arthur Schwartz

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I

decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. Dwight Gooden I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know. David Thewlis I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles. Corazon Aquino It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. Milla Jovovich Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread.

Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through. Michael N. Castle There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. John Galsworthy Wisdom sails with wind and time. John Florio I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened. Michael Phelps We had plenty of clothes and no money. Cesar Romero

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are

not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody. Dennis Hopper Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. Sarah Ban Breathnach Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. Arthur E. Morgan The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good. Story Musgrave If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. Fred Allen

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring

into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. John Steinbeck Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Henry Miller Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular. Andy Richter I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya? Chris Isaak

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be

treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. Raymond E. Feist Genius must be born, and never can be taught. John Dryden Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Amelia Earhart

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work

on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities. Bob Menendez Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Tony Robbins Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more. Richard G. Scott No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. Robert A. Heinlein The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. James Cash Penney

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line

gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? Dag Hammarskjold Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself. Shakira I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. Erma Bombeck You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. Richard Russo NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos. Trevor Dunn

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better

to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Elizabeth Taylor I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver. Douglas Wilson Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? Richard Dawkins Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. Michael Jeffery

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably

do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable. Richard Gere One faces the future with one's past. Pearl S. Buck You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better. Yukihiro Matsumoto One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. Mark Thomas Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. Francis Quarles

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors.

But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. Jane Porter William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. Benjamin Disraeli When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. Don Drysdale It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign. Phyllis Schlafly The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and

must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. Mario Puzo How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation. Paul Harris Industry need not wish. Benjamin Franklin We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together. Santiago Durango The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. William Osler

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be

going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time. Angela Cartwright I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. Wilma Mankiller Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr I only answer to two people, myself and God. Cher No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. Jane D. Hull

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount,

and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues. Mike Johanns Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. Willie Nelson You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. Leo Durocher I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. Louis Aragon In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. Carter G. Woodson

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have

been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy. Bobby Vinton Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. Phyllis Schlafly The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. Rupert Murdoch

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it

right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. Peter Gabriel That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. Johnny Mercer I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too. Paul Walker My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. Rick Moody Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. George Orwell

When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one

was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything. Eric Carr Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. Alfred Lord Tennyson I've got America's best writer for $300 a week. Jack L. Warner There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. Ben Affleck

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our

road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground. Betty Hill I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys. Billy Sheehan When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. Roger Babson France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. Jean-Marie Le Pen Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Arthur Conan Doyle

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the

information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. Albert Barnes Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Ronald Reagan The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing. Herman Kahn The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. Hugo Black The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. Abbie Hoffman

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of

my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. Louis Aragon It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change. Richard Kiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Herman Melville I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. Jerry Seinfeld It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. Melinda Gates

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I

get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration. Wendie Malick There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us. Margaret Mitchell Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton Only a mediocre person is always at his best. W. Somerset Maugham Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. Al-Waleed bin Talal

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso

musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! Ken Hensley Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. Robert Baldwin From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. Virgil If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight

delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. Frederick W. Smith When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself. Nina Hagen I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. Grandma Moses If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense. Johnnie Cochran A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. Franklin Pierce

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to

myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday. Otis Blackwell I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. Ray Charles We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish. Norm Dicks You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. Eric San Passions are the gales of life. Alexander Pope

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt

through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. Billy Sunday Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Simone Weil I failed to make the chess team because of my height. Woody Allen I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. Bill Wyman I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited. Sandra Oh

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the

aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors. Karl Urban Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. Zhuangzi It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. Isaac Barrow The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. Franklin D. Roosevelt Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. Pearl S. Buck

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it

has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. Eliza Farnham Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. William Watson No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. Meg Cabot In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. Norm Dicks An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. Phaedrus

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves

to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. John Kenneth Galbraith When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about. Fantasia Barrino The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. Jamie Lee Curtis Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model. Treat Williams I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be

of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. David Rittenhouse I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. John Moody I like being in new places and seeing new sights. Tom Welling For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes. Ted Allen

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off

the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. John Acton I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. Jose Ortega y Gasset Impropriety is the soul of wit. W. Somerset Maugham If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia

believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. Igor Ivanov For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. Stuart Chase My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. Francis Asbury If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. Miguel de Cervantes

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to

pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too. William Hung Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible. Eric Bana I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell. Richard D. James Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd

attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. Lisa Marie Presley And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. Wilfred Grenfell

Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles,

and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. Thomas Kuhn I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job. Robert Smith We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. Mitchell Baker I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. Burton Richter Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? Steven Spielberg

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound

the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. Chad Smith Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. Ron Reagan I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. Kenneth Rexroth I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. Robin Gibb You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo da Vinci

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God

or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good. Hans Bender He that does good to another does good also to himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. Joseph Addison I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. Ruth St. Denis If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. Al-Waleed bin Talal

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith

has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. Thomas Becket Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals. Christopher Dodd We talk on principal, but act on motivation. Walter Savage Landor These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. Joan D. Vinge I want good and different parts, different from what I've done. Joan Severance

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive -

making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. Dirk Kempthorne Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. Jim Dine Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. John Dryden Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. W. Clement Stone

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one

solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film. John Hurt In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. Livy Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. Tom Allen I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry. Robert Atkins

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to

defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? Hugh Mackay It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves. Anthony Collins I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. Gale Sayers I am against the whole cliche of the moment. Herman Kahn

Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the

world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass. Jeffrey Sachs Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men. Aaron Neville During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Jean Piaget I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media. Scott McCallum

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master;

as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. Marquis De Custine I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. Bobby McFerrin If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? Richard M. DeVos Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you. Edward Teach Because as an only child, you have your own little world. Maynard James Keenan

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in

playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. Li Peng No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. Claudius I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. Allen Funt I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30. Shane West Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. Craig Bruce

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally

recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. John Thune In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. George Bancroft I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression. Stuart Appleby I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it. Denise Richards I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. Susanna Moodie

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great

directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. Ernst Lubitsch We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music. Billy Sheehan Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress. Sue Kelly There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Denis Waitley

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities

it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. Leon Redbone Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active. Susan Hampshire This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. James A. Baldwin

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then

there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. John le Carre Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame. Crystal Chappell We can spend our whole lives underachieving. Phil Crosby I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't. Don Mattingly We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden. Brian Austin Green

All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years,

in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now. Alija Izetbegovic Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli Much effort, much prosperity. Euripides You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product. Donna Mills I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got

kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good. Billy Bob Thornton It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. Lynn Abbey Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. Wendy Cope Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you. Dick Francis We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. Samuel Rutherford

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are

organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. Ernest Mandel If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. Bob Greene I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15. Victoria Beckham In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. Peter Porter Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. Robertson Davies

They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I

think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good. Latrell Sprewell I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way. Stuart Pearce Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Jim Elliot I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free. Michael Bay Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. Dirk Benedict

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent

because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset. Salma Hayek If you live for fame, men may turn against you. Matthew Simpson I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life. Amy Grant Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. Charles Kingsley The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. Kevin Patterson

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been

a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' Ian Mckellen Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Lillian Gordy Carter It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. Cecilia Bartoli I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good. Peter Cooper Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Tryon Edwards

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is

unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. Gary North One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. Elmer Davis The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. Peter Davison I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. Deidre Hall If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if

you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. Kim Elizabeth How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Soren Kierkegaard Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. Charles Keating We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. Murray Kempton

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together

with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. Nathan Meyer Rothschild Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. Wes Craven I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. Dave Davies Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs. Ron D. Burton

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with

the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro Everybody likes a compliment. Abraham Lincoln But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words. Utada Hikaru A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. Morihei Ueshiba When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's

read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. Kevin J. Anderson Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. John Ciardi I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering? Andrea Corr When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. Sydney J. Harris Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Antoine Rivarol

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official,

high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. Robert Jackson I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone. Claire Bloom I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael J. Fox If you think I'm over-the-top, I am. Janice Dickinson I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby. Peggy Lee

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of

experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. Robert B. Laughlin A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. Hans Frank China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. Li Peng In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well. Vince McMahon There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious. Bill Toomey

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and

a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives. Michael N. Castle Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. Voltaire I tend to write in the mornings. Scott Turow I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Frida Kahlo I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. Philip Levine

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little.

The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. David Simon I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor. Michael Ironside I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more. Harry Caray Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. B. R. Hayden I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself. Utada Hikaru

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or

misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day. Richard Serra If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. Frank B. Kellogg The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. Toby Keith The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to

the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. Gregory Bateson The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Brian Tracy The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. Calamity Jane People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. Abdullah Ibrahim

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