Quotes & Sayings About Committing The Same Mistakes

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do. — Henry David Thoreau

You are my Earth, the centre of my cosmos, the source of all order. I am doomed to orbit you forever, approaching and retreating from you in turn, your Moon, with my face always turned toward you. The whole intricate system dances to a tune that you can hear, have always heard, which I only dimly perceive when I strain my senses to the utmost. — Marc Read

Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left. — Dick Van Dyke

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly. — Robin Givhan

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. — Charles Caleb Colton

I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children — Joseph Weizenbaum

It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. — Terry Pratchett

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border. — Jeb Bush

You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge. — Karl Pilkington

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear. — Malorie Blackman