Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
