Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let Allah will deal with the people who wronged you in this life, because too much hate will eventually consume you to — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
[Eva Braun] loved [Adolf Hitler]. She would have done that had she been able to spend 10 minutes with him. She endured… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of… — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all.… — Aml Ameen Copy Share Image
It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Russia has long recognized the borders of today's Ukraine. By and large, we have completed our talks on the border. Now we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times… — George W. Dunaway Copy Share Image
The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now.… — Rakim Copy Share Image
What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started. — Rexford Tugwell Copy Share Image
You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal. — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality. — Chris Bliss Copy Share Image