Homestead Act Of 1862 Property Owner Quotes & Sayings

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity. — Michael Josephson

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try. — Gurinder Chadha

I think if they wanted to get me to leave 'Children in Need,' they'd have to drag me off screaming. It's one thing that's so close to my heart, and I feel passionately about it. I gave up my radio show, with regret, but knowing I'd done it for a long time, the same with Eurovision. But 'Children in Need' is different. — Terry Wogan

If you are where I was before my process began, you can't imagine the place of victory, the place you can be free from the dominating desire for sexual stimuli. I am here to tell you that there is a place of freedom that you can know--a place where your desire for purity will subdue the lust of the flesh. — Bruce Lengeman

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me. — Pete Sampras

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball. — Rich Donnelly

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic. — Fernando Perez

Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited? — Ai Weiwei

I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart. — Rachel Vincent

Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy. — John Carroll

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan

[Roger] "Do you know how amazingly beautiful you are to me?"
"As beautiful as you are to me." She slid her gaze down then back up with one of those secret smiles that played havoc with a man's mind.
He shook his head. "Nah, I couldn't be, because you'd be insane with your need to just watch me. You'd ache every moment to just touch me. Your nights would be consumed with dreams of me and you'd live every moment just to love me. — Jennifer St. Giles

Such is the law of karma. Every action, howsoever innocent, has a reaction, that one has to experience if not in this life, then in the next,' said — Devdutt Pattanaik

Free haircuts are definitely a nice perk. — C. J. Wilson