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american-president artists good leave people
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. Andrew Jack
american-president best die flower knew
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln
american-president fear
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
american-president checkered dare enjoy far gray knows mighty neither nor poor rank spirits suffer though twilight victory win
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
american-president best chance far hard life offers prize work worth
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
american-president brought conceived created dedicated equality fathers forth men seven
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
american-president conviction driven knees nowhere seemed
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
american-president awakened cabinet case left national orders time
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
american-president character reputation shadow tree
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
character far given great last movies tortured
As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor, James Franco
character fit project
A waterfront project must fit our town's character. Kirk Kennedy
character fictional people speaks threatened volumes
That people can be threatened by a fictional character speaks volumes about them. Greg Rucka
character cotton included signed stretched strong wire
Our American forebears included Cotton Mather and Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and we were told that a strong wire of character stretched from them through all generations of our family. Sister Parish
character god people reveals sports teaches word
People say sports teaches character but that's not true. Sports reveals character and then the word of God can come into a life.
character lost planning straight
No one was ever lost on a straight road.
character credit decent extremely felt force overtime played
Once we got it to overtime, I felt decent about our chances. To force overtime was a credit to character and that we played extremely hard.
character gets life played spends thinking
Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him. James Nesbitt
character full life moment portrait prince seemed
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby
reputation shame glory
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory. Sydney Smith
reputation slappers supposed-to-be
I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation. Sienna Miller
reputation true-man manipulator
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating. Martin Amis
shadow-work shadow way
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working. Jane Hirshfield
shadow deeds
The word is the shadow of the deed. Democritus
shadow want return
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them. Claude Debussy
shadow safe sun
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. Adelbert von Chamisso
shadow hollywood invisible
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is. Alex Kingston
shadow path human-potential
Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Debbie Ford
shadow hills room-with-a-view
... there are shadows because there are hills. E. M. Forster
shadow seems
The very shadows seem to listen. Anna Katharine Green
shadow
What has no shadow has no strength to live. Czeslaw Milosz
tree fruit growing
Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability. Jane Goodall
tree earth forests
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Anton Chekhov
tree stranger
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees... Bob Dylan
tree demand soil
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish. Arthur Schopenhauer
tree fruit shakes
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. Edwin Arlington Robinson
tree soul world
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. Charles Bukowski
tree bigs grows
Nothing can grow under big trees. Constantin Brancusi
tree rodin study
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
tree environmental levels
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. Clive Anderson