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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
Election
,
Generation
,
Thinks
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns
Forget
,
Down
,
Finally
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
Friend
,
Door
,
Kid
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Aldous Huxley
Happen
,
Wrong
,
Prophet
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.
Hillary Clinton
Work
,
Trying
,
Stay
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles M. Schulz
Laugh
,
Learn
,
Himself
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
Technology
,
Important
,
Deep
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Eric Davis
Life
,
Nothing
,
Enjoy
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton
Wait
,
Inspired
,
Excited
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
Ray Bradbury
Energy
,
Themselves
,
Ideas
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
Two
,
Why
,
Put
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Time
,
Try
,
Fail
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens
Home
,
Justice
,
Door
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton
War
,
Courage
,
Brave
When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton
Before
,
Training
,
Service
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
Life
,
Time
,
Find
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
God
,
Nothing
,
Everything
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
Important
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
Power
,
Greatest
,
Others
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
Success
,
Change
,
Failure
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
God
,
Friends
,
Makes
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Richard M. Nixon
Job
,
Woman
,
Political
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Chinua Achebe
Food
,
Yourself
,
Someone
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead
Food
,
Country
,
Find
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
,
Give
,
Thirty
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acting
,
Planning
,
Arrived
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen
Tried
,
Depressed
,
Armenian
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
Down
,
Find
,
Before
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
,
Time
,
Experience
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Desmond Tutu
God
,
Smile
,
Coming
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