Aretha Franklin
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
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Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Always do the right thing.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Snap out of it !
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
A simple I love you means more than money.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Without a general an army is lost.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
There is no substitute for hard work.
To infinity and beyond !
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another