Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.
I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
I feel that I am better than Roman Reigns, but you know what? He hasn't wrestled as long as I have.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
