Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTStubbornness is not firmness.
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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUN -
Victory starts in our minds. Success, breakthroughs, new levels depend on our thinking.
JOEL OSTEEN -
When people think about the ark, they’re always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.
DARREN ARONOFSKY -
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI -
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN -
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
HARPER LEE -
When you embrace freedom, you also embrace loneliness.
ANAND THAKUR -
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESE -
Sometimes Sarah [Chalke] starts to talk about Iraq or whatever and she gets all excited, like I actually give a crap what she’s saying. Come on, she’s a woman. But still, it’s very cute.
ZACH BRAFF -
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
MAYA ANGELOU -
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
STEPHEN COVEY -
If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.
ANNE BOLEYN -
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUS -
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
NICK CAVE