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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

    Author: A. A. Milne
   

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

    Author: A. C. Benson
   

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

    Author: A. J. McLean
   

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

    Author: A. J. McLean
   

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

    Author: A. N. Wilson
   

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

    Author: Aaron Carter
   

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

    Author: Abbe Pierre
   

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

    Author: Abbie Hoffman
   

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

    Author: Abdallah II
   

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

    Author: Adam Brody
   

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

    Author: Adam Garcia
   

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

    Author: Adam Michnik
   

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

    Author: Adoniram Judson
   

We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

    Author: Adrian Edmondson
   

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

    Author: Adrian Smith
   

I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

    Author: Ahmed Yassin
   

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

    Author: Aishwarya Rai
   

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

    Author: Akshay Kumar
   

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

    Author: Alain Prost
   

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

    Author: Alan Davies
   

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

    Author: Alan Mollohan
   

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

    Author: Alan Shepard
   

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

    Author: Alan Vega
   

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

    Author: Albert Einstein
   

Love is a better teacher than duty.

    Author: Albert Einstein
    Topics: Love Is

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

    Author: Albert Einstein
   

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

    Author: Albert Finney
   

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

    Author: Albert Finney
   

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

    Author: Alberto Giacometti
   

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

    Author: Alberto Juantorena
   

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

    Author: Aldrich Ames
   

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

    Author: Aldrich Ames
   

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

    Author: Aldrich Ames
   

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.

    Author: Alexa Vega
   

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

    Author: Alexa Vega
   

A promise must never be broken.

    Author: Alexander Hamilton
   

I think the first duty of society is justice.

    Author: Alexander Hamilton
   

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

    Author: Alexandra Kerry
   

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

    Author: Alexandre Dumas
   

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

    Author: Alexis Bledel
   

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

    Author: Alexis Carrel
   

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

    Author: Alfred Adler
   

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

    Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
   

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

    Author: Ali MacGraw
   

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block.

    Author: Alicia Keys
   

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

    Author: Alicia Silverstone
   

I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

    Author: Alicia Silverstone
   

I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

    Author: Alicia Silverstone
   

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

    Author: Alicia Silverstone
   

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

    Author: Alicia Silverstone
   

On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

    Author: Alicia Witt
   

When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.

    Author: Alicia Witt
   

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

    Author: Alison Bechdel
   

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

    Author: Alison Bechdel
   

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

    Author: Alison Bechdel
   

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

    Author: Allen Boyd
   

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

    Author: Alvin Ailey
   

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

    Author: Amanda Peet
   

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.

    Author: Amber Tamblyn
   

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

    Author: Amber Tamblyn
   

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

    Author: Amber Valletta
   

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

    Author: Amos Oz
   

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

    Author: Amy Sedaris
   

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

    Author: Amy Vanderbilt
   

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.

    Author: Amy Weber
   

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

    Author: Amy Weber
   

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

    Author: Amy Weber
   

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

    Author: Amy Winehouse
   

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

    Author: Andre Malraux
   

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

    Author: Andrea Jung
   

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

    Author: Andrew Carnegie
   

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

    Author: Andrew Carnegie
   

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

    Author: Andrew Carnegie
   

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

    Author: Andrew Jackson
   

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

    Author: Andrew Jackson
   

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