Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.
t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
our mind is like a bitch which will never stay with us and which will never sleep with us unless we give & get a deeper understanding.
Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.
I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
The thing of it is, we don’t have to be perfect or be the best. We just need to do the best with what God gives us and how life treats us.
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
