Able Quotes - Page 119

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!