How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.
Steve Maraboli
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
George H. W. Bush
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Samuel Johnson
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Vincent Van Gogh
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
George Eliot
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.
Blaise Pascal
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx
Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.
Rob Corddry
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
Tea should be taken in solitude.
C.S. Lewis
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Louis L'Amour
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.
John Green
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
Apocatastasis. What it means: 1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation 2) Return to a previous condition 3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution. Think about it.
Neil Gaiman
B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine
When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?
Friedrich Nietzsche
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
Dennis Banks
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.
Eleanora Duse
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
Hillary Clinton
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
Timothy McVeigh
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
Steven Wright
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
Willie Nelson
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
Stephen King
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