Dorothy Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
To ask the hard question is simple.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Act or accept.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
You become what you think about.
We must be the change we wish to see.
You had me at "hello".
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
What's meant to be will always find a way
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
No involvement, no commitment.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
You must motivate yourself every day.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
These go to eleven.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Love is a great beautifier.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.