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QUOTES PAGE LAST UPDATED: 08/30/17
"When you feel your life is in chaos and you don't know what to do, eliminate all the things you can do nothing about, and whatever's left, do that."
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Nothing is impossible. Every goal one sets is within reach. If you set up your objective, there is infinite possibilities. If you stop, the possibilities stop.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Confidence and Courage are the necessities of success.
Nothing needs so much reforming as other people's habits.
I do not curse. I am profound, not profane.
Now the holiday is nearing its end and at last recovering from the shock of spammed turkey, it's obvious to me that Thanksgiving (and other special days) require a lot of planning and implementing and socializing and enduring, but when it's all said and done, the most important thing about a holiday is the memories you share.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe
I hate cynicism. It's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
Darkness feeds on apathy...and conviction is our most potent antidote.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
There is no greater human power on earth than
It's been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this date, in this election, change has come to America.
I have decided that the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end. Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap. See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
To whom much has been given, much is expected.
Sometimes I think change is a good thing. Although it may be terrifying to get out of your comfort zone, it's also very exciting to start a new chapter in your life.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
It isn't enough to have endurance. You have to want to.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
I make it a point never to consume anything that's been aged in a radiator.
If I have learned anything in this life, it is that for every end, there is a new beginning. Sometimes neither is easy.
The promise of a new day is exhilarating enough for me.
The most ordinary of human dreams is to be extraordinary.
Being Irish is difficult to define, impossible to miss.
It is that time of the year once again as through my windows I see the trees turning to reds and golds, and the prism light showers rainbows on my northern wall.
As stewards of the Earth, there is an ongoing effort to celebrate the Earth as home.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Whether or not an artist “makes it” has little to do with whether or not an artist has talent.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling ''Kilroy was here'' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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