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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
— J. B. Pritzker
They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
— George Galloway
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24).
— Anonymous
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
You think of nothing but yourself. If you want to kill yourself, what's keeping you?' I said. Silence sat between out stares.
'Fear,' he said. — Ruta Sepetys
'Fear,' he said. — Ruta Sepetys
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
— Neal Stephenson
You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live.
— Franklin Graham
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.
— Oscar Wilde
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
— J.D. Salinger
God will facilitate, but He will not force.
— Neal A. Maxwell
I promise you, when I'm done, your ass will be sore, but others will be dead." "You're not being literal, are you?" "Yes, your ass will be sore." I
— Aleatha Romig
Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.
— Mia Hamm
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
— Alain Prost
Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.
— David Weinberger
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.
— Frankie Avalon
Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
— Michael Bergdahl
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
— Patrick DeWitt
Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.
— Piper Faust
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.
— Nick Love
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.
— Nick Lowe
There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
— Louis Garrel
It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
— Keith Rabois
The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.
— Larry Crabb
But live while you live, tomorrow you die ...
— Leo Tolstoy
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
— Isabelle Adjani
Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.
— Walter Besant
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
— John Lydon
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
— Plutarch
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
— Agnes Obel
She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.
— Arnold Rothstein
We all believe that, we can't buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.
— M.F. Moonzajer
But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn't be happy anywhere else.
— Anita Diamant
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
— Jimmy Buffett
What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
— A.J. Vega
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
— John Milton
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
— King David
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
— William Hogarth
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
— Christopher Marlowe
I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.
— Anna D. Shapiro
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.
— Ivan Konev
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
— Katy Butler
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...
— Marcel Proust
Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.
— Judith Viorst
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Man planned, but God prevailed.
— Francine Rivers
I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.
— Jessica Sanchez
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
— Bill Budge
It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
Breathe," he whispers into my ear. "Calm down, Sky. I know you're confused and scared, but I'm here. I'm right here. Just breathe.
— Colleen Hoover
God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.
— Marion D. Hanks
I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
— Dennis Quaid
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
— Lech Walesa
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
— Chrissie Hynde
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
— James Dashner
There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.
— Volkmar Sigusch
But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.
— Anna Friel
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.
— David Fincher
We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.
— Jo Nesbo
I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour
I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
— Jussie Smollett
We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?
— Debasish Mridha
Jeb: But I need to tell you something first.
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson
Sometimes you just have to be proud of yourself, not just because of what you doing, but because of who you are
— K.C Mathobela
It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.
— Ai Weiwei
I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.
— Joe Royle
Nick tried to give him a reassuring smile, but he knew himself well enough to know that when he smiled, it rarely reassured anyone.
— Abigail Roux
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
— Dorothy Parker
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
— Rick Bass
Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
— Terry Pratchett
I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.
— Eric Schlosser