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Quotes by American Authors
"It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done."
"A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend."
"Luck marches with those who give their very best."
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
"Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond."
"The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row."
"Man absolutely cannot live by himself."
"When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, 'it is good to be alive!' I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine?"
"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."
"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."
"Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist."
"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."
"There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there."
"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent."
"Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended immeasurably to keep hold of my reaching hand. But Father Time, being a cruel master, will not grant such a wish. And so I tuck you away as cherished memories, stored in a treasure box buried in my heart. And in times of solitude, I shall bring you out to view like rainbows."
"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
"Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves."
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
"Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals."
"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
"What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path."
"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."
"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."
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