I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.
There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn’t stand out.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
If you can’t see it, you can’t be it. It’s just having those brilliant women break out and do something – then other girls can say, ‘I can do it, too!’
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Being happy never goes out of style.
I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
If you behind me, I’m not going to look back and try and figure out what you’re doing behind me.
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
In the end, it’s a mental maturity to let your best come out.
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.
Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
I just like hanging out with my friends, honestly. I mean, as long as I’m in good company and with cool people, and we’re just hanging out and having a good time, that’s usually what I like to do.
I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Include me out.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
