Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?

Walter F. Mondale

Being Family Fishing Friends Hunting Life Night Sleep Want

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don’t give a damn about Jim Bakker.

Jessica Hahn

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Paulo Coelho

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Theodor Adorno

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Michael Scheuer

American Osama bin laden Road World

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

David Sarnoff

Advice Hate Will

Eccentric doesn’t bother me. ‘Eccentric’ being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn’t follow the lines – that’s okay.

Crispin Glover

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

Achievement Chess Victory

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

Robert Crippen

Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.

Jack Welch

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

James Gandolfini

Career Father Mother

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I’ve never considered failure.

Jennifer Lawrence

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Mariel Hemingway

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

David Blaine

Soon it’s all going to be digital anyway. It’s all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.

Richard Donner

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Men Right Wrong

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

Adoniram Judson

Future God Promises

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

Maurice Strong

Environment Problems

Never was I booed.

Willie Stargell

If you don’t ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It’s like the marathon runner. You’ve got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

Sammy Hagar

Marathon Singing Voice

I’m not sure we think it’s a win to talk about what you’re taking out.

Rick Wagoner

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

Encouragement Love Mother

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Sidney Poitier

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

Age Ideas Language Principles

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

David Riesman

Enjoyment Medicine Students Want

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

Ernestine Rose

Existence Facts Fancy Life Nothing Romance Woman

I’m a Republican, by the way.

Charles Evers

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

Andy Lau

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

John Adams

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet.

Anne Stevenson

Children Mountains Sister Time Writer

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

Darren L. Johnson

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

Bragging Conceit Confidence Job

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles Dudley Warner

Gardening Man Needs

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Katharine Hepburn

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

George H. Mead

Personality Sense

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Artist Fact Life Play

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Beauty Difficulty Poetry

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

W. Edwards Deming

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

George Carlin

Argument Family Night

I’m not interested in becoming a bigger star, I’m not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I’m doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

Seth Green

Acting Being Life Love Rest Want World

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

Charlotte Rae

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it’s so little known about it which surprised me.

Moustapha Akkad

Being Duty Islam Muslim Obligation Religion Truth

Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Sue Johanson

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Barry Humphries

Business Destiny School World

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

Acting Laws Limits states

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

Charles Foster Bass

Committee Military Past Years

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology – although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Paul Hawken

Age Information People Technology Will

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake