It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
(pron.) Them. See Hem.
(pron.) The objective case of he. See He.
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope and that was him.
If you can learn something from that person add him in your list if you can't ignore him.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game...
Personally, I have detested Gordon Brown since the moment in 2001 when he tried to make cheap capital out of the Laura Spence affair; as his troubles have piled up, I have felt no sympathy for him at...
I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.
Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal...
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billi...
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.