Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association and affection.
Wendell Berry
Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.
Wendell Berry, Peaceableness Tow
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of lifes realities.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts
Florence Sabin
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
Sir Winston Churchill
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
Woodrow Wilson, from Congression
The end of birth is death; the end of deathIs birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befallsWhich could not otherwise befall?
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, verse
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
Bhagavad Gita
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
Johann von Goethe, Elective Affi
I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
Andie MacDowell
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
Northrop Frye
Men insist that they don
Elizabeth Gould Davis
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First
It's all about the director for me we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.
Juno Temple
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.
Michelle Trachtenberg
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
Jeffrey Archer
Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
Simon Mainwaring
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
Jo Ann Davis
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Carter Burwell
No one chooses to raise children alone.
Erykah Badu
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
Donald Trump
My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
Robin Tunney
I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.
Amanda Bynes
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
Drew Barrymore
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
Lev Yilmaz
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
B. B. King
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
Mitt Romney
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
Gene Simmons
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
John Barton
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
Davy Crockett
The thing about death is that it's honest.
Laura Linney
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
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