I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
Stephen King
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon Musk
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.
Johnny Depp
Life is like a camera: just focus on what is important, capture good times, develop from negative, and if things do not work out, take another shot!
Daireth Winehouse
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
Norman Augustine
Hasten slowly.
Caesar Augustus
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
Ronald Reagan
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
Regina Nadelson
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Neils Bohr
Never accept a drink from a Urologist.
Erma Bombeck
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Terrorism is a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the heroes underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.
Umberto Eco, from Travels in Hyp
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
Umberto Eco
I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient himself in the world. What I did not understand is the relation among signs . . . I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.But in imagining an erroneous order you still found something. . . .What you say is very fine, Adso, and I thank you. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless . . . The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Ros
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco, The Island of the D
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries....
Umberto Eco, Baudolino
God is the Unique, and he is so perfect that he does not resemble any of the things that exist or any of the things that do not; you cannot describe him using your human intelligence, as if he were someone who becomes angry if you are bad or worries about you out of goodness, someone who has a mouth, ears, face, wings, or that is spirit, father or son, not even of himself. Of the Unique you cannot say he is or is not, he embraces all but is nothing; you can name him only through dissimilarity, because it is futile to call him Goodness, Beauty, Wisdom, Amiability, Power, Justice, it would be like calling him Bear, Panther, Serpent, Dragon, or Gryphon, because whatever you say of him you will never express him. God is not body, is not figure, is not form; he does not see, does not hear, does not know disorder and perturbation; he is not soul, intelligence, imagination, opinion, thought, word, number, order, size; he is not equality and is not inequality, is not time and is not eternity; he is a will without purpose. Try to understand, Baudolino: God is a lamp without flame, a flame without fire, a fire without heat, a dark light, a silent rumble, a blind flash, a luminous soot, a ray of his own darkness, a circle that expands concentrating on its own center, a solitary simplicity; he is...is... She paused, seeking an example that would convince them both, she the teacher and he the pupil. He is a space that is not, in which you and I are the same thing, as we are today in this time that doesn't flow.
If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
John Allston
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal
Never have children, only grand children.
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Judith Viorst
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
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