The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.
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I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve.
AHMED ZEWAIL -
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. ROWLING -
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
Knowing who you are is confidence.
MILA KUNIS -
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don’t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren’t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
DENNIS RODMAN -
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
PABLO PICASSO -
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
BADEN POWELL DE AQUINO -
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEAN -
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
Great faith is the product of great fights.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH -
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ -
Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.
WINONA RYDER -
When one loves, one does not calculate.
THERESE OF LISIEUX -
We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
BILL ACKMAN -
I watch the way the stars shine a little brighter when you gaze at them.
KARLA GALEANA -
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
HERODOTUS -
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
JOHN HEYWOOD -
If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
BILL MURRAY -
Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.
BERNARD LONERGAN -
I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?
BARBARA CARTLAND -
Loving you is like being ten years old again, scaling a tree with my eyes bright and skyward, wanting only to get higher and higher, without a thought of how I would get back down.
LANG LEAV -
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
AISHA TYLER -
There’s a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom.
BRAD WILLIS -
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
SHERYL SANDBERG