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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.: Robin Morgan
- More quotations on: [Men And Women]
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- More quotations on: [Maturity]
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- More quotations on: [Passion]
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.: Elizabeth Janeway
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- More quotations on: [Confidence]
You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- More quotations on: [Faith]
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.: Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- More quotations on: [Children]
You can't please all of the people all of the time, and last night all of those people came to my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), stand-up
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.: Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- More quotations on: [Tradition]
It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.: W. Lee Grant