We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".


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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpos...
SIDNEY SHELDON
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. An...
SIDNEY SHELDON
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
SIDNEY SHELDON
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation ...
SIDNEY SHELDON
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations...
SIDNEY SHELDON
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
SIDNEY SHELDON
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatel...
SIDNEY SHELDON
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
SIDNEY SHELDON
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't...
SIDNEY SHELDON
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life...
SIDNEY POITIER
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly f...
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
All good work requires self-revelation.
SIDNEY LUMET
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
SIDNEY CROSBY
I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I ...
SIDNEY POITIER
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Liars ought to have good memories
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted
ALGERNON SIDNEY
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
God helps those who help themselves.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," t...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
SIDNEY HOOK
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
SIDNEY POITIER
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
SIDNEY SHELDON
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place -...
SIDNEY SHELDON
Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a...
SIDNEY BUCHMAN
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s...
SIDNEY LANIER
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old...
SIDNEY SHELDON
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
SIDNEY POITIER
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha...
SIDNEY POITIER
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; ...
SIDNEY LANIER
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to sta...
SIDNEY CROSBY
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me...
SIDNEY SHELDON