Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
Recitation: by Male by Female
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson
PeaceSometimesBloodThingsAbove
Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
Andie MacDowell
LifeWorkKindnessSimpleSomeone
I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.
Maya Angelou
MyselfMomentEnoughI CanSerious
Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
ChildrenPeopleThoughtFeelBorn
Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.
Sue Monk Kidd
MusicGodSoulIdeasBusySelf
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
LiveMusicDeathConversationWonder
I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.
Romesh Gunesekera
AgeTimeCricketGameDeepFind
A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
Russell M. Nelson
HumanWellOnlyHuman BeingsSpoken
Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
Mike Wallace
ThreeTwoHangAnswerFourSeconds
You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
Miranda Lambert
WorkBusinessTimeStartReachYou
This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.
Lisa Lampanelli
FoodTogetherFriendsConversation
I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
Jay Mohr
AngryStreetKidAlwaysPlaying
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