An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight – gospel songs. We grew up with it…It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
With stubbornness, you can turn defeats into amazing achievements.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
We know the reward is peace on earth, goodwill toward men, but we cannot win it without determination and concerted effort.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
If you are not ready to go all the way, why go anywhere at all.
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
There are many ways to motivate yourself to reach a higher level. Write about it, dream about it. But once you’ve done that – make it happen. Don’t settle for dreaming.
I will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Your most difficult opponent is not the one facing you. Human nature, on the other hand, is.
I think now it’s a bit of a shame the real blondes are on the verge of extinction.
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I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.
They are the second best team in the world and there is no greater praise than this.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.