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To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.
An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.
I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.
I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel." - Does it get easier? "Yes. But you'll never be the same again.
Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
Traveling is a bit of a push sometimes. When you're doing a lot of miles and you're doing a lot of shows, it does get wearing.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.
Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.