This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
Steve Maraboli
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
What we call results are beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert Camus
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
Diane Wakoski
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch
I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.
Busy Philipps
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
William H. Murray
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Robert. L. Ehrlich
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow
For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
Jim Coleman
The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Vera Wang
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
Newt Gingrich
Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Ambrose Bierce
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
Dick Cheney
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton
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