Thomas Hardy Quotes
Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
Thomas Hardy
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
Zach Wamp
Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
Garrison Keillor
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume
Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
Angelina Jolie
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
George Clooney
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Aristotle
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
Euripides
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
William Irwin Thompson
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
William Penn
I climbed a hill as light fell short, / And rooks came home in scramble sort, / And filled the trees and flapped and fought / And sang themselves to sleep.
Ralph Hodgson
Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
William Shakespeare
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
Steven Amsterdam
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
Brian Tracy
For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
William Blake
