Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
~By Keith Haring ~
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
~By John C. Ransom ~
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
~By Frances McDormand ~
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
~By Federico Fellini ~
I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.
~By Don Novello ~
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
~By Yevgeny Zamyatin ~
We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
~By Tom Daschle ~
I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
~By Mark Udall ~
I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
~By Celia Johnson ~
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?
~By Kojo Annan ~
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.
~By Corin Nemec ~
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
~By Chad Smith ~
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
~By Joichi Ito ~
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
~By Paul Robeson ~
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
~By George Gilder ~
I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
~By Stellan Skarsgard ~
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.
~By Hermann Maier ~
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
~By Harry Reid ~
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.
~By Igor Ivanov ~
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
~By Peter Wright ~
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
~By Jim Ryun ~
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
~By Danielle Steel ~
If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.
~By Anna Nicole Smith ~
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.
~By Donna Mills ~
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!
~By Neil Cavuto ~
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.
~By George Martin ~
We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.
~By Terry Jones ~
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
~By Aristotle ~
You have to fight against being an antique.
~By Burt Lancaster ~
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
~By Kingsley Amis ~
There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
~By Frank Rich ~
We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
~By Craig Johnston ~
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
~By Carl Levin ~
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
~By Janos Kadar ~
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.
~By Mike Thompson ~
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
~By George Santayana ~
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
~By Franz von Papen ~
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.
~By Tom Metzger ~
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
~By Jose Maria Aznar ~
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.
~By Stephanie Herseth ~
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
~By Thomas Hood ~
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
~By Jerry Costello ~
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
~By Cliff Richard ~
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
~By Stephen J. Field ~
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.
~By Howard Stern ~
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
~By Ian MacKaye ~
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
~By Seth Godin ~
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
~By Isaac Hanson ~
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
~By George Herbert ~
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
~By Don Bluth ~
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
~By Abraham Kuyper ~
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
~By Bart Stupak ~
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
~By Robert Crumb ~
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~By Nora Ephron ~
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
~By Jonathan King ~
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
~By Max Lerner ~
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
~By Ben McKenzie ~
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
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