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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Love looks like something.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have expected that.

For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

The thing that motivates me most in my workouts is when I can learn something new.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.