Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale CarnegieMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireBeing involved in the production wasn’t supposed to be that way but Paul encouraged me and it just worked out that way.
Duncan JamesCommunists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson MandelaI would sweat and think and get it all together. [On lyric writing]
Jim CapaldiOur performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt by that more than people realise
David BeckhamThere is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'CaseyHappiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth...
Ashton KutcherYou will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob BronowskiTalkin' of Rovers, you ought to see the new barmaid, if you can call her that. The first time I saw her I thought it were a jukebox. [on Bet Lynch]
Jean AlexanderAmerica is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. [Which means that nothing is true?]
James FarrellI'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. [Only those in countries that play baseball, surely?]
Tom ClarkThe two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
Brian PickrellThe self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
Elias CanettiOn Natalie Imbruglia: 'She's the kind of girl you could either rob a bank with or take to church.'
BonoThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Sarah CaldwellLet's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C S LewisSome of the Spurs players looked a bit legless
Gary LinekerFulham needed those three points because they were slowly sinking towards the bottom very quickly.
Mark LawrensonThere's not much I haven't had to do for my acting. I've worn a thong on stage, I've been sprayed gold, I've had my head shaved, I've grown beards – you name it.
Ray FearonNo society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco'i just take it on the chin and get on with it'
David SneddonEvery day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert OrbenIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
PlutarchI always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
Debbie HarryThe happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques RousseauIf the whole of the english language could be condensed into one word, it would not suffice to express the utter contempt those invite who are so deluded as to be disciples of such an imposture as Darwinism.
Francis MorrisFor anyone to beat the Aussies, who have proved over the last 10 years that they are the top side, is simply awesome
Simon JonesChildren are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John BradshawI think I was weaker mentally on the important points and he was mentally stronger
[on playing Federer in US Open 2007]
Novak DjokovicTo different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J B PriestleyI've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.
Ann KokPlayers have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
Sparky AndersonLiberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them
Lenny BruceI'd been in South Africa on a modeling job and they'd told me to lose weight. I didn't fancy that so I was on my way home. And that was when I got the call telling me I was the new Lara. It was such fantastic news. It's such a high profile job - and one of the few that lets you keep your boobs and bum. [on being Lara Croft]
Lucy ClarksonCollege isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen KellerWhat's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven WrightA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George SantayanaI would like to be Top 20 by the end of the year. Even more important for me is to improve my game.
Ana IvanovicOn the person who stole his guitar: "Whoever you are out there, you can safely take it back to Virgin and nothing will be done. Or you can find yourself floating in the River Mersey."
Richard AshcroftGenerally the people out on the pitch are the ones who know how to play the game, not the people who are writing about it.
Marcus TrescothickThe more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs (L'Esprit des betes)
A ToussenelI am speaking from a deserted and virtually empty Crucible Theatre.
David VineWe should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.
Mark TwainBalance is the key to my life, the ability to have new experiences and enjoying life to its fullest. On my free times I enjoy fireing it up being the ultimate party animal and at the same time I enjoy being a suzy homemaker.
Felicia TangFor my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Napoleon BonaparteEvery manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
Fabio CapelloThe world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles BaudelaireIf you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.
Peter GallagherI know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
Louis Nizer
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