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We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.
As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.
We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.
I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.