The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 254)

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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
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The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.
Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.
I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.
There is no power above people power.
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.