Inspirational Quotes - Page 601

I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better.

What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I don't really care if they like me or not.