I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Mexico with the United States has outnegotiated us and beat us to a pulp through our past leaders. They've made us look… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish… — Ouida Copy Share Image
You are nothing like Christine!" he said, in my face. "She was a responsibility, a mistake I made when young and foolish,… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying… — Caspar Weinberger Copy Share Image
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees;… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only… — David Small Copy Share Image
Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Langley would never complete his newspaper project. I knew that and I'm sure he knew it as well. It was a crazy… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A truly good man is unaware of his goodness and is there for good, A foolish man tries to be good and… — Lao Tsu Copy Share Image
“If you're goingto play cards, you should ask Burke to join you," Adelia put in. "Then maybe Keeley, Erin and I can… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports… — Malik ibn Anas Copy Share Image
Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
