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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
The Church is not an automobile showroom – a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.
I’m like an old turtle these days. I don’t run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I’ll be where I’m supposed to be.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
I’m, like, really cute.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
I always wanted to be a princess like Cinderella.
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
I’m not psycho… I just like psychotic things.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
You play like you practice and practice how you play.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.
By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
If I see a problem, I like to think if there’s a better way to do it.
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
At the end of the day, if you feel like you’re a good person, and your intentions are good, then that’s all that matters.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
I like the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy.
I feel like my style’s always been influenced by ‘less is more.’ The coolest styles are kind of simple and classic, like a white T-shirt and jeans. Maybe you have a cool belt and cool shoes, but everything else you keep simple.
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.
People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I’m like, ‘Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That’s it.’ There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.’
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end you just have to be yourself.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
You’re beautiful, like a May fly.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
You can’t control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can’t control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator‘ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
I wasn’t really too hyped on religion. I don’t really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There’s just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Strangely enough, when the Sugababes’ ‘Freak Like Me’ went to number 1, which was built around my ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric’ song, I had another song called ‘Rip’ go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
I like fish, and I also like bear‘s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I feel like I’m opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look – just like a new hairstyle.
Nobody‘s perfect, so don’t go out there and try to act like you got to live a perfect life. Be yourself, and be happy with it.
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it’ll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
Love, and do what you like.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
I think self-discipline is something, it’s like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man‘s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
There’s nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie.
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying here you throw this away.
I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!
Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, ‘You look like Marky Mark!’ Then as I got older, they were like, ‘You look like Donnie Wahlberg.’ Now they’re like, ‘You look like Donnie Wahlberg’s cousin from Massachusetts.’
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I’ve got em ’cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
I wish I could dress like a princess every day.
I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters.
Everything that happens is meant to be. It’s meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don’t know at the time that it’s meant to be disaster.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
