We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma GandhiSitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
Taylor SwiftWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinI just don’t like killing creatures.
Clint EastwoodI don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.
Karl LagerfeldWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungI’m terrified of losing my voice.
Christopher HitchensWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac AsimovWhat is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
BuddhaWe ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus AureliusNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltThe wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel JohnsonI’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
Elvis PresleyNever trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. RowlingDon’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
Wayne DyerAnd thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus AureliusFaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.
Stephen CurryI believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
Joyce MeyerI’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
Anthony HopkinsSexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.
Billie EilishMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotPersuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
AristotleHappiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-PowellOvernight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Clint EastwoodEach day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
Christopher ColumbusAs a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank OceanAlthough the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas SowellYou know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.
Warren BuffettOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SocratesI think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.
Ruth Bader GinsburgOur heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt DisneyIf you can talk, you can write.
Christopher HitchensIf you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Haruki MurakamiWhenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
H. L. MenckenI can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
Kevin HartI often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
Kamala HarrisWhen people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. RowlingPrayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.
Joyce MeyerI used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.
Joe BidenI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonI grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Adam SandlerI have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Henry David ThoreauI do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma GandhiMe is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob MarleyWe all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Charlie ChaplinArrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia WoolfI think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Clint EastwoodThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauFrankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.
Mark ZuckerbergJesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.
Joyce MeyerCommunications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.
Margaret AtwoodOne might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
Joyce MeyerAfter one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
Nelson MandelaThe secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
George LucasThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleWords, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William ShakespeareBefore I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘
Kevin HartWhen it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.
RihannaConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert SchweitzerIt opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens