Quotes 6081 till 6100 of 8624.
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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
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The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
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The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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