The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
I’m a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective – I feel things first, and then I think them through – and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel’s nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you’re likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don’t be cool.
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the ‘New York Times’ one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters.
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.
Whatever dream you have, be sure that it is going to be happen, and then forget about it. Then you have to come back to the present and be there 100 percent.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
If it’s a healthy day, I’ll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.
It blows my mind – whenever you’re stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there’s so many layers to everything.
Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it’s hard for somebody not to like you.
The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.
If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process… it’s the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn’t. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it’s time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason – to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, ‘I did that.’
When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn’t give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now.
If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never yours to begin with.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.
Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, ‘Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.’ Since then, I started to think differently.
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
If you’re afraid of losing, then you daren’t win.
My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
I was always making new friends, then losing them.
If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it’s a good problem.
