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You should never ask God to do what He has said He’s already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.
yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system
Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I don't have a girlfriend but sometimes I like to pretend I do. I just stand in my apartment screaming No, that's not what I said!
The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?
I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.
She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
I would be lying if I said no. I have an idea for 'Pa. Pandi 2', but I don't know when it will happen or if it will happen at all.
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.
I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of Ukip.
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.
All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.
Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'