Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by American Authors - Page 17

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.

When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

Success is best when it's shared.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in Detroit. There was little argument that you could make that some of the money from that should be sent overseas to Ireland.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.