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Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what...

Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Quote by Robert A. Heinlein about action, contentment

You will always discover errors in your work after you...

You will always discover errors in your work after you have printed/submitted it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, error, work, contentment

You must change in order to survive.

You must change in order to survive.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about order, change, contentment

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Quote by Marlene Dietrich about opinion, film

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way...

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

Quote by Michael Jackson about nation, people

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature, peace, good, good luck

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't...

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Quote by Walter John Matthau about humor, bills

Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human...

Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?

Quote by George Gordon Byron about human imperfections, love

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, ...

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Quote by George S. Patton about people, contentment

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the...

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Quote by George Seferis about attitude, life

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Quote by Li Peng about country, wealth, world

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will...

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Quote by Aristophanes about destiny, eyes, contentment

The video directors, they're all good, I guess. But they tend... they tend to be real control freaks because they want every shot perfect and they want your performance perfect and they want to give you every line reading.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about perfection, real estate, good, good luck, contentment

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Quote by Herodotus about change, man

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction...

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Quote by Silius Italicus about danger, word, experience, truth

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for...

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Quote by Henry Ford about money, man, time

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks.

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love

What is The Country? For them, or for us?...

What is The Country? For them, or for us?...

Quote by Mariana Fulger about country

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children, world

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan, the battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about fire, injustice, home, house

My writing has to support more than my research habit, ...

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about habits, research, writing, history, love

Respect all religions in a combat zone, take no chances...

Respect all religions in a combat zone, take no chances on where you may go if killed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, chance, respect, contentment

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about clothes, lie, work

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who...

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about man, common sense, people

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just...

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about need

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Quote by Francis Bacon about objects, memory

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about virtue

I made a documentary of the making of the record that I'm...

I made a documentary of the making of the record that I'm cutting together now.

Quote by Don Johnson

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is...

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Quote by Winston Churchill about meetings

I would not want to live in a country that would have me...

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

Quote by Tom Hanks about country

We are a being only through our Illusion of Life.

We are a being only through our Illusion of Life.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about being, wisdom, life

Although things are never what they seem to be, this...

Although things are never what they seem to be, this mistery is the machinery that gets in motion the most precious gift - imagination!

Quote by Maria Pal about mistery, gifts, imagination, things

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Quote by Henry Fielding about money, devil, god, contentment

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quote by Quincy Jones about school, things

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about water, character, fire, fire brigade, man

The labour is indeed constant, but not in general so violent as either to exhaust the strength by over-straining, or to excite any weakening degree of discharge by perspiration.

Quote by William Falconer

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