Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I'd learned my lesson.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Walking is man's best medicine.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
People fail forward to success.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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