One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTThe dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
NIKITA GILL -
The Finals are about a test of wills.
BILL LAIMBEER -
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
FRANCIS CRICK -
There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can’t do it – because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.
RICK WARREN -
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL -
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.
B. J. FOGG -
The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.
GERHARD HERZBERG -
I want to put my name in history. I love history.
DEONTAY WILDER -
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHAL -
We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
BILLY CHILDISH -
When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.
JUDAH SMITH -
Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.
FRANK OCEAN -
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
AL FRANKEN -
The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.
DEBBIE FORD -
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
URSULA K. LE GUIN