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Florida Scott-Maxwell
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Tony Kushner
People shouldn’t trust artists and they shouldn’t trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
Tupac Shakur
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Gerald Griffin
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
Ben Barnes
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Bharati Mukherjee
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer’s office above the coffee shop where we’d been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, ‘By the time you get this, Daddy, I’ll already be Mrs. Blaise!’
Amy Sedaris
I have always wanted a bunny and I’ll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
Arthur Eddington
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Whittaker Chambers
At issue was the question whether this man’s faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Johnny Carson
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Mark Twain
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Pierre Abelard
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
Leonard Bernstein
To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.
Marston Morse
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
Gamaliel Bailey
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Giuliana Rancic
I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.
Sojourner Truth
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Emeril Lagasse
I can’t tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Douglas Bader
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Buddha
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
John Hawley
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
Bill Walton
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.