We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I stand in awe of my body.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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