As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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'.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 02:16 sati.