Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
~By George Washington ~
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
~By John Podesta ~
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.
~By Robert Jenkins ~
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
~By William Joyce ~
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
~By Courtney Love ~
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
~By Pierre Pettigrew ~
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Freedom is living without chains.
~By Indra Devi ~
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
~By James Collins ~
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
~By Jim Elliot ~
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
~By Wietse Venema ~
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
I like to reminisce with people I don't know.
~By Steven Wright ~
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.
~By Keira Knightley ~
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~By Charles A. Beard ~
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
~By Michael Lewis ~
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
~By Henry Winkler ~
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
~By Carlos Santana ~
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
~By Zane Grey ~
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
~By Oscar Peterson ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
~By Art Spiegelman ~
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
~By Laurie Lee ~
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
~By Bill Joy ~
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
~By Geddy Lee ~
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
~By Kate Millett ~
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
~By Jamie Farr ~
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
~By Claire Danes ~
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
~By Ian Hacking ~
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
~By Evan Parker ~
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
~By Margaret E. Sangster ~
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
~By Adam Rich ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
~By Barbara Eden ~
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~By Brian Celio ~
With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
~By Jon Secada ~
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
~By Harold Acton ~
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.
~By Bill Dixon ~
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
~By Ernst Engel ~
They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
~By William Morris Hunt ~
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
~By Mason Cooley ~
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
~By George Whitefield ~
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
~By Fred Hoyle ~
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
~By Chris Chocola ~
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
~By Beau Bridges ~
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
~By Dan Hicks ~
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
~By Gates McFadden ~
I am two with nature.
~By Woody Allen ~
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
~By John Ruskin ~
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
~By Alan Parker ~
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
~By J. Martin Kohe ~
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
~By Wally Amos ~
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
~By Mark Twain ~
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
~By Anita Brookner ~
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
~By Mick Taylor ~
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
~By Gene Robinson ~
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
~By Chris Wallace ~
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Beware of a man with manners.
~By Eudora Welty ~
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
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