Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
A smiling face is half the meal.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Is there life before death?
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Some people make headlines while others make history.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
People fail forward to success.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
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.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Who were these clowns?
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
People fail forward to success.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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