Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
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If you’re doing something and keep doing it, you’re gonna get better results.
KING VON -
All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY -
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOW -
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
BEAR BRYANT -
That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, ‘We’ll have to take the eye out.’ …I fought like a tiger. I said, ‘No! Leave the eye alone.
BERNARD JENSEN -
You can’t take life for granted.
JENNIFER LOPEZ -
Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
JOHN WAYNE -
Love yourself, first.
CELINE ZABAD -
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT -
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
PLATO -
If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.
DEEPIKA PADUKONE -
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party – whose members for the most part come from the ghetto – seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people’s language.
BOBBY SEALE -
Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean
ADAM LEVINE -
In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of mankind.
GRETA THUNBERG -
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
EDWARD DE BONO -
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
BLAISE PASCAL -
I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
BOB DEVANEY -
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
ALAN JACKSON -
If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
AI WEIWEI -
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
BRENT SCOWCROFT -
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEE