I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
~By Jonathan Frakes ~
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
~By Sally Schneider ~
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
~By Clare Short ~
Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
~By Lady Gaga ~
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
~By Gus Van Sant ~
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
~By Solomon Schechter ~
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
~By J. Enoch Powell ~
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
~By Benjamin Graham ~
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
~By Marc Chagall ~
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
~By Fay Wray ~
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
~By David Trimble ~
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
~By Les Baxter ~
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
~By Danielle Steel ~
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
~By John Burns ~
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
~By Deana Carter ~
Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.
~By Matt Cameron ~
But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
~By Jose Saramago ~
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~By Alice Walker ~
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
~By Meryl Streep ~
We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.
~By Linda McCartney ~
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
~By Indra Devi ~
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
~By Aristotle ~
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
~By Yann Arthus-Bertrand ~
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
~By Scott Adams ~
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
~By Terry Hands ~
I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
~By Tony Campolo ~
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
~By Robert Bork ~
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~By William Glasser ~
There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
~By Connie Francis ~
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
~By Henry Home ~
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.
~By Jim Ryun ~
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
~By Denis Waitley ~
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.
~By Ken Buck ~
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.
~By Mike Wilson ~
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.
~By Marc Davis ~
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
~By Albert Brooks ~
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
~By Caspar Weinberger ~
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
~By Judy Collins ~
When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I do not intend to prejudge the past.
~By William Whitelaw ~
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
~By Titus Livius ~
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
~By Christopher Morley ~
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
~By Tom DeLay ~
When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
~By Mike Johanns ~
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
~By Dick Wolf ~
But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
~By Mel Tillis ~
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
~By Kate Chopin ~
I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
~By Judy Holliday ~
He conquers who endures.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
~By Jane Haddam ~
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
~By Lord Acton ~
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
No one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.
~By Caesar Rodney ~
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
~By Maimonides ~
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
~By William Hull ~
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
~By Edna O'Brien ~
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
~By Pras Michel ~
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
~By James Goldsmith ~
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
~By Charles Darwin ~
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