I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.
When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.
I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! --Hamlet (I, v, 106)
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or "Development") might be observable in the fossil record, it was ...
When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think...
They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently...
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It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway ...
When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant....Our thoughts, or in other words...
