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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, ...

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Quote by Salma Hayek about home, house, art, magic, love

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about god, heart, things, man

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy, force, police

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Quote by Aristophanes about enemies, teaching, common sense, sense, war, man

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Quote by Salma Hayek

Don't give to anyone the power of your words.

Don't give to anyone the power of your words.

Quote by Marius Torok about word, power

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't...

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Quote by Franz Kafka about despair, contentment

Most of the time, you don't even know your mamma have a gun, you know? And when she pulls it out, and shows it to you, it's something serious. And the way life is to me right now, we're at a very detrimental time.

Quote by Erykah Badu about time, contentment, rightness, life

Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Quote by Tommy Lee Jones about faith, survival, things, people, real estate

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. This is your...

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about time, life, contentment

The distance is great from the firm belief to the...

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.

Quote by Isabella I about faith, experience

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this...

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Quote by Kurt Vonnegut about earth, miracle, rightness

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to...

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Quote by Jules Romains about history, disaster, human imperfections

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to...

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Quote by Walter Pater about success, life

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

Quote by Piper Perabo

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our...

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about use

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You...

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Quote by Greta Garbo about contentment

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago...

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Quote by Michael Bolton about common sense, things

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest...

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about books, fire, fire brigade, contentment

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about dignity, people

I'll ride this out as long as they'll let me. And if it...

I'll ride this out as long as they'll let me. And if it ends, I'll probably go back to school and be a dentist.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about end, school

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Quote by Edward Abbey about humor, drinking, day

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Quote by Aeschylus about bad, suffering, man

I like my money right where I can see it hanging in my...

I like my money right where I can see it hanging in my closet.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about money, rightness

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is...

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, end

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a...

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about reason, force, police

That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried...

That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve people.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about life, people

The most enthusiastic worker doesn't get paid any better...

The most enthusiastic worker doesn't get paid any better than anyone else.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about workers

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience...

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Quote by Rita Mae Brown about experience, judgment, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, feelings, time, being

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young...

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

Quote by Thomas Moore about love, dream, nothing, life

I was rebellious, fighting the waves. I lived in the...

I was rebellious, fighting the waves. I lived in the shadow of this great legend and yet everybody was telling me to be my own man.

Quote by Peter Fonda about shadow, man

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, ...

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Quote by Joseph Addison about morality, authority

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought...

Quote by Brett Favre about football, contentment, family, rest, thinking, life

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want...

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment, love

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