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Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.
All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.
Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.
There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.
I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.
There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?