Ellen Degeneres Oscar 2014 Quotes & Sayings

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. — Nelson Rodrigues

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence. — Samuel Richardson

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. — Thomas S. Monson

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats. — Ronald Reagan

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself. — Stuart Appleby

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities. — Oliver Goldsmith

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
— Jim Fergus

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way. — Cherie Lunghi

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. — Bill Bryson

All at once I began dreading to look at them as they passed. I saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types--something one would not care to remember. The — H.P. Lovecraft

He laughed in exultation as he came upon the house, the rush of his full power better than any human drug, the joy of its unfettered release expanding his heart with every beat, gorging his lungs with every breath. — D.B. Reynolds

And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It — Orison Swett Marden