«Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.»
«Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.» —
«I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.» —
«I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.» —
«There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.» —
«The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.» —
«No garden is without its weeds.» —
«Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.» —
«Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?» —
«Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.» —
«Devotion
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.» —
«Do The Next Thing..» —
«The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.» —
«I have but one candle of life to burn, and i would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.» —
«Genius is eternal patience.» —
«To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.» —
«You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.» —
«I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.» —
«You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.» —
«Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.» —
«Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.» —
«In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.» —
«To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.» —
«Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.» —
«Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.» —
«Fingerprints are like values you leave them all over everything you do"-» —
«Don't try to be original; just try to be good.» —
«Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.» —
«Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.» —
«...And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.» —
«Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.» —
«Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.» —
«The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.» —
«Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.» —
«Blessed are those who see through the eyes of a child» —
«The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.» —
«But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.» —
«Whatever you do may seem insignificant but it is most important that you do it.» —
«Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.» —
«There are no tomorrow’s and there was no yesterday, what you have now is what you will have.» —
«Just because you make a mistake doesn't mean you are a
mistake.» —
«If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this.» —
«the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.» —
«Happiness is the true beauty weapon.» —
«You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself
about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time
is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used
the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole
different story.» —
«There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.» —
«There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.» —
«Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you’d live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.» —
«You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more aptly, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.» —
«To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.» —
«Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.» —
«If you don't brand yourself, other people will.
And I can guarantee you that they won't brand you in the way that you want to be branded.» —
«God helps them that help themselves.» —
«He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.» —
«If your head is wax, don'twalk in the sun.» —
«The key to your happiness is to...own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. [Otherwise] you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.» —
«Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?» —
«If you're walking down the right path, and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.» —
«I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.» —
«Life lesson 2, Never tell a woman that those pants make her butt look big.» —
«...we accept the love we think we deserve.» —
«I love you like a fat kid loves cake!» —
«The heart was made to be broken.» —
«Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.» —
«It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.» —
«Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.» —
«Love is like flowers blossoming in spring. When you think it ends, it’ll grow again in time.» —
«Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.» —
«Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.» —
«In love, one and one are one.» —
«The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.» —
«True love comes quietly, without banners of flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.» —
«Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.» —
«It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.» —
«Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?» —
«Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.» —
«Stay near to me and I’ll
Stay near to you –
As near as you are dear to me will do.» —
«Love and a cough cannot be hid.» —
«What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!» —
«Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).» —
«Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.» —
«All life is created in love, and thus in the depths of every human being lies a good heart. Some have lost their path from this love, so it up to us to show them the way.» —
«True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs» —
«I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.» —
«I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.» —
«And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured.
I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
What a sick, masochistic lion.» —
«He had been my almost. My might-have-been.
I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.
Still, I collected kiss stories.
-Susie Salmon» —
«A little still she strove, and much repented, and whispering, "I will ne'er consent" - consented.» —
«I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...» —
«And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.» —
«Time is how you spend your love.» —
«When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?» —
«Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.» —
«The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.» —
«Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.» —
«I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.» —
«Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
--Acheron Parthenopaeus» —
«Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.» —
«It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.» —
«The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.» —
«Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.» —
«You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.» —
«We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.» —
«That is a perfectly good mini-tree, Kevin, and we are going to sell that to charity. That's what Christmas is all about.» —
«We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?» —
«It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.» —
«Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.» —
«Life is like a B-picture script.» —
«She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.» —
«Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.» —
«Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.» —
«When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.» —
«Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.» —
«Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.» —
«Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.» —
«Plan for the future because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life.» —
«Try living your life to the fullest. If you won't then, what's the point of living?» —
«Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?» —
«Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.» —
«And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.» —
«I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.» —
«...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.» —
«Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.» —
«Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the
old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops
into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do
when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-
I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.» —
«To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing» —
«A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile» —
«Writing is the geometry of the soul.» —
«Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.» —
«Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.» —
«My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.» —
«Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.» —
«If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.» —
«The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.» —
«If it's fiction, then it better be true.» —
«I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly» —
«Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.» —
«For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me.» —
«I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")» —
«Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is just as you are about to reconcile yourself to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out into public.» —
«A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.» —
«Books, the children of the brain.» —
«I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.» —
«The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.» —
«I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.» —
«Never trust a man who reads only one book. - from Purity of Blood» —
«Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.» —
«I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.» —
«You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.» —
«A book is never finished; it's abandoned.» —
«Books are like truth serum—if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.» —
«Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.» —
«There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.» —
«Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.» —
«Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.» —
«And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!» —
«Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.» —
«Language is fossil Poetry.» —
«Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!» —
«Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.» —
«Peace is always beautiful.» —
«Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.» —
«Landscape is my religion.
...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water.» —
«It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.» —
«It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.» —
«Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.» —
«You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...» —
«If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.» —
«A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot» —
«Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!» —
«Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.» —
«The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he
whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.» —
«Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.» —
«You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.» —
«The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).» —
«Christianity has not been tied and found false. It's been tried and found too difficult.» —
«My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.» —
«When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.» —
«I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.» —
«There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.» —
«The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)» —
«If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.» —
«The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.» —
«Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth» —
«Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.» —
«Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.» —
«The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.» —
«If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.» —
«And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.» —
«Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.» —
«This sick strange darkness comes creeping on so haunting everytime
And as I stared I counted the webs from all the spiders
catching things and eating their insides
Like indecision to call you
And hear your voice of treason
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight
stop this pain tonight» —
«Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.» —
«For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.» —
«With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.» —
«Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.» —
«Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.» —
«All I want is someone I can't resist ...I will know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed» —
«You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.» —
«I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.» —
«It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.» —
«Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thr beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)» —
«Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match» —
«The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.» —
«stop asking God to bless what youre doing. find out what God's doing. its already blessed.» —
«When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".» —
«Give me the Love that leads the way
The Faith that nothing can dismay
The Hope no disappointments tire
The Passion that'll burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God» —
«God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world» —
«How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies. (on God)» —
«It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.» —
«The gods have become our diseases.» —
«Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.» —
«One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..» —
«Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.» —
«When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.» —
«This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder» —
«But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.» —
«To the beginning of the rest of our lives.
- Leo» —
«You sound so reasonable for a man who's been jilted. Can't you sound a bit angry? You just lost the best sex of your life. Punch a wall or something!» —
«Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.» —
«If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.» —
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.» —
«Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.» —
«They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.» —
«Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.» —
«The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.» —
«Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.» —
«Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?» —
«I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.» —
«It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.» —
«I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.» —
«The paper is patient, but the reader is not.» —
«Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.» —
«I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.» —
«The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.» —
«Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can
make someone smile while they're having a piss.» —
«The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.» —
«Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.» —
«A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.» —
«If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.» —
«From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails» —
«Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.» —
«God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.» —
«A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.» —
«The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.» —
«The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot» —
«Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel» —
«Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.» —
«TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.» —
«In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.» —
«Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.» —
«With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.» —
«Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.» —
«The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.» —
«You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.» —
«Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!» —
«So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.» —
«There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!» —
«Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.» —
«Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.» —
«Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.» —
«The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.» —
«What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.» —
«Memory is the happiness of being alone.» —
«The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.» —
«Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.» —
«If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.» —
«She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!» —
«I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.» —
«It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.» —
«War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.» —
«What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?» —
«How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.» —
«How is it possible to have a civil war?» —
«Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.» —
«Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.» —
«There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.» —
«Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.» —
«... I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.» —
«Delia Smith needs to realise that when Nigella flirts with the camera she comes across as a slut. When Delia does it she comes across as an old slut.» —
«In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.» —
«It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.» —
«In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.» —
«Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.» —
«Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.» —
«I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.» —
«Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.» —
«He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.» —
«When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.» —
«Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.» —
«Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.» —
«The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...» —
«Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.» —
«The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.» —
«Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.» —
«Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance» —
«Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." ~» —
«The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.» —
«To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.» —
«God wants to dance with us. The goal of dancing is NOT to learn the steps. The goal of dancing is to enjoy your partner. We learn the steps but only so we don't have to look down at our feet. We are free to look into the eyes of the one we love.» —
«Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.» —
«For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.» —
«Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.» —
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