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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject

to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. Christopher Dawson Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another. Wanda Jackson A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. Neale Donald Walsch A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Thomas Pynchon Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Edwin Markham The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. Nathaniel Parker Willis The thing I do best is laugh. Cathy Freeman

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions

based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. Christine Gregoire Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way. Jacques Chirac It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. Margaret Mead Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. John Ruskin Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. Terri Windling Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. Mahatma Gandhi The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and

doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq. Christopher Dodd The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. Pablo Picasso Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. Bill Keller I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write. Adrienne Kennedy

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it

is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. Edward de Bono Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything. Jack Scalia In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. John Rawls It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. Jawaharlal Nehru The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Hector Berlioz The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. D. H. Lawrence No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. Theodore Roosevelt

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that

it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. Arthur Henderson We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. Michael D. Barnes The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. W. Somerset Maugham In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. Henry Van Dyke Just knock hell out of it with your right hand. Tommy Armour I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro. Henry Carter Stuart

I've been doing this 17 years but I can tell you I have more websites

now than I have ever had devoted to me or my past career or my character. When I got this show, I think I had two fans out there that had created websites on my behalf. Robert Patrick You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense. John C. Reilly I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. Mackenzie Astin Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. Jules Renard Judges are appointed often through the political process. Stephen Breyer Good things happen to those who hustle. Chuck Noll If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested. Tanya Tucker

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as

a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us. Roy Wood Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. Vernor Vinge I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. Michael J. Fox Choose an author as you choose a friend. Arthur H

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into

believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. Kanye West If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Ann Landers Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Miguel de Cervantes When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. Theodore White The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women. Bill Toomey I never met a man I didn't want to fight. Lyle Alzado The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. Agnes Repplier

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their

lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. Graham Nash We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio. Nick Cannon But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. Tom Allen I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it. Olga Korbut In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Ed Koch The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. Eric Hoffer Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. Nancy Astor

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt

is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. Dave Obey This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. Robert Fortune Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life. Leonardo DiCaprio The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me. Dan Farmer That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people. Clint Walker In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. Phyllis McGinley

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a

false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Marcus Tullius Cicero We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. Charlie Dent I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working. Alphonso Jackson In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. James Allen It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Colin Powell You can't sep

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of

my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. Burton Richter I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!! Jesse McCartney At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Maya Angelou The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach. Greg Walden I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. James Cameron If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters. Don Drysdale I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go

out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about. Andrew Shue If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. Bill Vaughan Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. Alfred Hitchcock It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park. Jake Gyllenhaal And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee. John Clare The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. Thomas Keller The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action. Howard Berman

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never

been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. Robin Gibb I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that. Richard Foreman I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting. Brent Spiner I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. Woody Allen Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. Alan Bleasdale I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal. Nicole Richie

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your

dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. Mark Victor Hansen When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. Nia Vardalos The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. Jack Kevorkian We are all special cases. Albert Camus I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. Michael Storm Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. James Thomson

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I

embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. Trent Lott One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. Eleanor Porter But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. Joseph Stiglitz Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge. Judith Light As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Chanakya Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Honore de Balzac

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up

to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Abraham Maslow Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. Robert Hall No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. Greil Marcus I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. Rodney Dangerfield If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Grace Paley I'm known as a winner now. Brett Hull

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of

my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say? Mike Davidson But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. Jose Marti There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. Gregory Peck Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. Anne Wilson Schaef A people must have dignity and identity. Andrew Goodman I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian. Victoria Jackson Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the

air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. John Hall And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture. Michael Schiavo If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. Michael Kinsley People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits. Eddie Floyd A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character. Emmett Kelly Man proposes, and God disposes. Ludovico Ariosto Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. Arthur Rimbaud

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times,

on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. John Saxon Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?' Annie Dillard I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters. John Bonham Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. Solomon Ibn Gabirol It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John Phillips Marquand Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women. Diane Watson We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions. Pauline Hanson

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write

it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. Joichi Ito In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. Edward Tufte The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. E. W. Howe I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smi

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they

don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.' Jerry Seinfeld Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. D. H. Lawrence I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican. Rodney Alexander Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. Ted Kulongoski If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. Andy Rooney God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. W. H. Auden Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. Brit Hume

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives,

except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. David Brooks If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian Tracy I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me. Johnny Ramone I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. Plautus The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. Muhammad Ali Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. Robert Fulghum

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on

the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services. John Larson I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. James Stewart Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. Diana Ross Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. Robert Green Ingersoll Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. John Naisbitt I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hol

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that

were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. Corazon Aquino I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men. Charlotte Ross The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it. Daniel Keys Moran God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Francis Bacon An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. Bette Davis Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. Bill Joy

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every

day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. Joseph de Maistre The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down. Lionel Murphy It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. Robert W. Welch, Jr. But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron. Kenneth Lay Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. Red Buttons Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. Phil Crosby When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day. Joan Van Ark

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe

a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. Jose Ortega y Gasset If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. George Will We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. Ben Okri Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. Horace Walpole Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. Edsger Dijkstra Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. Paul Bryant The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. Walt Whitman

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see

if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens. Mick Taylor Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. James Hilton You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely. Graham Nash A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. Arthur Baer There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck Law and justice are not always the same. Gloria Steinem I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. Rodney Dangerfield

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually,

a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals? Chuck Grassley Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. Sue Kelly The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. Jessamyn West Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? John Calvin I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. Donnie Yen Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. Marilyn French

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our

concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor. Donna Mills When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. Nick Clooney Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. Sydney Smith Who sows virtue reaps honor. Leonardo da Vinci You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. James A. Garfield

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had

any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. Michael Bloomberg I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. Bruce Dickinson Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools. David Soul As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. Casper Van Dien If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies. George A. Romero One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. E. M. Forster If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. Anita Roddick

Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration

would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly. Andrea Jung In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. Jim Sensenbrenner I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. Dick Dale I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could. O. Winston Link When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life. Tracy Kidder The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction. Susan George It's harder to laugh than to cry. Henry Thomas

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be

conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. Hayden Fry It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. Tarja Halonen Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day? Alan Cohen Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Robert H. Schuller There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. Washington Irving

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are

being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. Connie Stevens A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. Robert Reich I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. Anne Hutchinson I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open. Stuart Pearce Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Ruben Blades The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. Philip Sidney I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this. Bernard Ebbers

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home

through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. Simon Wiesenthal There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. Elias Canetti Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. Babe Ruth I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. Billie Holiday I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. Ian Hunter Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. Emile M. Cioran I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. Peter Singer

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part,

the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that. Matt Robinson The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Martin Luther The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen. Peter Mayhew I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die. Celia Cruz I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology. Bob Paisley When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. John Gray

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of

the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. Henry A. Wallace I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. Steven Curtis Chapman I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen. Tom Wilkinson You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. Adlai E. Stevenson Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. Thomas Wolfe I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. Steven Wright

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love

of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. Ricardo Montalban Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. Ethel Barrymore Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. Bertrand Russell A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. Charles Evers Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt.

Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. Nick Nolte So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. Adam Schiff Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!' George Will For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. Cyril Falls It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. Carroll Shelby

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are

willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do. John Harvey Kellogg While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare. Boris Yeltsin Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions. John Yoo Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. Harold Ross Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. Agnes Martin America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Whatever happens, take responsibility. Tony Robbins

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn

a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. Rick Boucher Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. A. J. McLean For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. Rumer Godden I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. Dominic Monaghan It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. William E. Gladstone History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Paul Eldridge The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful

life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Isak Dinesen I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents. Linda Hamilton There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. Archibald MacLeish Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen. Jim Capaldi Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. James Cash Penney Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. Conway Twitty

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run

away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it. Cuba Gooding, Jr. So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. Cindy Sheehan In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. Dean Koontz In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. Carter G. Woodson The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within. Dave Winer It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for

all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about. James Caan You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film. Patrick Swayze Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Erma Bombeck Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. Logan Pearsall Smith Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. Marquis De Custine Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are. Morgan Brittany I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back. Jason Statham

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in

one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. Pauline Hanson There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. Hubert H. Humphrey Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way. Todd English Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw Old women should not seek to be perfumed. Archilochus I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. Casper Van Dien A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. Early Wynn

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,

The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao Tzu Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. Gerald F. Lieberman There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician. Bill Wyman Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. Alphonse de Lamartine It's more fun to think that there are other worlds. Katherine Heigl Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. Matthew Shipp One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new

age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. Joe Lieberman There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. Jim Jeffords I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. Will Wright The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind. Nick Cannon We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. Earl Nightingale I love science fiction. Pam Grier It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. Aeschylus

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based

on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. Mario Monti The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. Hillary Clinton Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. Edwin Land Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. Jeff Cooper Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. Al Stewart

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run

by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it! Jamie Oliver I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. Paul Bremer Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. Christine Gregoire I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. Alan Arkin Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line. Crystal Gayle The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart. Bryant H. McGill

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly

believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute. Joe Manchin I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored. Bill Cartwright The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Madame de Stael You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie You have to make it happen. Denis Diderot Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. Joseph Parry Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I

can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer. Ricky Schroder Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. Frederick Scott Oliver But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. Richard Thompson What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. Jack Kevorkian I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. Mitch Kapor He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. Jose Rizal Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bernard Williams

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician.

That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. Aung San Suu Kyi I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine. Ralph Boston Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. Mary Bono There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. Jack Henry Abbott Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. Tony Scott Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. Douglas William Jerrold I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work. Andres Serrano

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and

this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami. Dan Marino It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. John Abizaid Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Paul Klee This acting was very hard work. Jack Levine What people want is a seamless Web experience. John McKinley The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. Michel de Montaigne When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. George Stephen

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the

interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. Oswald Spengler The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. Alma Guillermoprieto Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. William Albert Allard Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. Aaron Allston Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. Peter Mandelson We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million

gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. Morihei Ueshiba Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. Conrad Veidt Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. Quintilian I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. Isaac Hanson Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. Frank Darabont I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared. Jim Messina I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen

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