Use Quotes - Page 17

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.