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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds...

If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account

I don't take anything for granted.

You can have anything you want

I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

No one before you has gotten to me this way.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.

The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.

Music is love searching for a word.

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.

We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.

Everything happens for a reason and, of course at times it's very discouraging, but at the end of the day you can't take it personally and move onward because if you let it sit with you, then it starts to eat away at you and you're allowing someone else to steal your excitement. No one wants that.

Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.

I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...

The good is always the enemy of the best.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.