Charm

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  • Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
        Andrew Soloman   Best?
  • If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
        Henry Bromel   Best?
  • Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
        Orson Scott Card   Best?
  • If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
        John Cage   Best?
  • The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
        Fred Astaire   Best?
  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
        Salvador Dali   Best?
  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
        Jimmy Carter   Best?
  • Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
        Hanif Kureishi   Best?
  • When you're part of a team, you stand up fou your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
        Yogi Berra   Best?
  • He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
        e. e. cummings   Best?
  • Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
        Henri-Frédéric Amiel   Best?
  • It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
        P. G. Wodehouse   Best?
  • Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
        Frank Sinatra   Best?
  • The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
        Steven King   Best?
  • I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.
        Alice Walker   Best?
  • Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
        Plato   Best?
  • The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
        Rene Descartes   Best?
  • Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
        Ovid   Best?
  • He who spares the wicked injures the good.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Strain every nerve to gain your point.
        Cicero   Best?
  • To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
        Katherine Patterson   Best?
  • . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
        Mozart   Best?
  • Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
        Steven Weinberg   Best?
  • What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
        Doctor Who   Best?
  • It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
        Robert Solow   Best?
  • It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
        Socrates   Best?
  • No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.
        Abrahm Lincoln   Best?

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