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In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.