Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
It’s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We’re in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
I’ve never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!
I’m a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I’m interested in being real.
Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can’t belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.
We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Everybody has their manifesto; let them talk their language, come to the people, and the people will decide. In a democracy, no party or candidate wins or loses. If you, the people, chose a wrong man, you lose; if you chose the right one, you win.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
When hardships come into your life it breaks you for a while, but when it is done with you evolve into a new person.
I’m not a kid anymore. And I’m excited for all the amazing things to come.
I’m proud of my work and how far I’ve come, and I’m proud of the way that I did it.
Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
