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I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.
If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!
Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude
Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.
We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'
We should be the first to help disadvantaged people. What would happen if other countries decided to follow our example?
If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.
Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.
The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.
One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.
The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.
Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.
Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.
Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.
More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.