My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value
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