He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
#quotes #melina-marchetta #men #common-sense #speaking

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
#quotes #libba-bray #power #hero #villain

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
#quotes #bill-budge #boring #interesting

Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
#quotes #stevie-wonder #love #peace

He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
#quotes #charles-simic #motivation

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
#quotes #tom-hiddleston #bullying

Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #beginning #strength

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
#quotes #mariella-frostrup #children #family

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
#quotes #billy-sunday #prayer

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
#quotes #pope-pius-ix #christianity

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
#quotes #james-madison #communication #free-speech

Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
#quotes #charles-melville-hays #cars

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
#quotes #al-gore #funny #tired #night

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
#quotes #dorothy-denning #government #privacy

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
#quotes #james-madison #government #power

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
#quotes #richard-linklater #faith #believe #intelligence

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
#quotes #helen-mirren

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
#quotes #stephen-laberge #childhood #world

People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
#quotes #felix-baumgartner #money #mars

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
#quotes #charles-lamb #black

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
#quotes #coco-austin #family #love

The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
#quotes #ludwig-von-mises #politics #freedom

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #honesty

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
#proverbs #roman-proverbs #power

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs