Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda Meir
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
Julie Burchill
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
Mark Twain, notebook, 1908
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
Jean Baudrillard
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
Michelle Obama
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary, "Evening Standard
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
Paul Farmer
People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening.
David Brinkley
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.
Patti Stanger
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
John Bright
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
Carol Bellamy
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
Karrie Webb
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.
Heather Wilson
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
Stefano Gabbana
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
Jerry Seinfeld
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
Patty Hearst
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare
If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
Ron Wyden
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