There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
Tom Wilson
Recitation: by Male by Female
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
Jeremy Clarkson
GreatWaterManMeBoatIce
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre
JusticeDemocracyCountryVirtue
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
John Shelby Spong
NatureThinkUniverseBootsPerson
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
LifePeopleSkillUpMineJust
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
SocietyRichPoorLeftMakeForces
My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.
Chuck Zito
FatherFightMeHowTaught
I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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I don't write about anything I haven't been through.
Brantley Gilbert
WriteThroughAnythingBeenAbout
Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.
Anouska Hempel
HomeDayNightYouBadFeeling
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Anthony Hamilton
PerseverancePatienceMyselfPain
We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.
Shawn Achor
KnowledgeBestMedicineThinkKnow
I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.
Sean Hayes
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