You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey.
Donald Trump - via Twitter, 7.10.2019
1Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.
I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.
If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.
I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.
Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
Every one of my positions cuts out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
It is certain because it is impossible.
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
