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Bainbridge Colby
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
E. W. Howe
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
Epictetus
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Edie Falco
I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Ruth Bernhard
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Frederick William Faber
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Courteney Cox
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.
Teemu Selanne
You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.
Julie Burchill
I don’t really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won’t hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.
Jane Haddam
I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines.
Louis de Bernieres
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Hannah Arendt
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Cardinal Richelieu
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Goethe
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Susan Taylor
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Byron Pulsifer
Transformation doesn’t take place with a vacuum; instead, it occurs when we are indirectly and directly connected to all those around us.
Dr. Seuss
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Jack Buck
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Vera Farmiga
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Peter Agre
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Dalai Lama
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Mordechai Vanunu
We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
Angela Schwindt
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
David Lynch
The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that’s changing. It happened to the music industry and now it’s happening to the film studios. It’s crazy what’s going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
Donald Johanson
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.