Every accepted public quote

“The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.”

“Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is t...”

“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

“I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of acting, and started going to drag shows. I had never seen a transsexual before, an...”

“President Truman made his name by looking into contracting. And that's how integrity within the military procurement started in the United States.”

“Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.”

“My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Bl...”

“Well, my musicians are my friends.”

“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”

“Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by...”

“When Jeff and I were first starting out and trying to make a name for ourselves, we were doing indy shows, and would take whatever we could get just to have as much in-ring time as we could.”

“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.”

“To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.”

“Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek...”

“Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”

“What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!”

“Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a po...”

“Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.”

“So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love.”

“Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.”

“The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follow...”

“I'm in love with you Coreen. Your name is embedded in my soul. Ang laking problema, hindi ba? Kaya sana mabaliw ka lang rin sakin para wala na tayong problem. So, I'm sorry, hindi kita iiwas...”

“One thought driven home is better than three left on base.”

“I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.”

“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.”

“I have a boxing trainer at a gym, which is really fun. And I also try to complement it with flybarre, which is lengthening, strengthening, toning, just tightening everything up.”

“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the swee...”

“It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.”

“I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventua...”

“Real education starts when you genuinely feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger. Spirituality begins when y...”

“There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.”

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not live...”

“Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”

“Adrenaline has always been my thing.”

“And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.”

“Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and dem...”

“What you don't know cannot be beaten out of you.”

“Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.”

“To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.”

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”

“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.”

“A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate part...”

“The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping.”

“Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to...”

“He may be one you crave, but is he the one you deserve? Does he deserve you? Accept nothing less than you deserve for you are a Queen”