It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...
C.S. Lewis
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
William Shakespeare
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Mark Strand
One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender.
Christopher Hitchens
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
Leo Tolstoy
I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
Christopher Walken
It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
Feist
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
Henry David Thoreau
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Samuel Butler
For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.
Evan Davis
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
Kahlil Gibran
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary Clinton
I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?
Cassandra Clare
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
Katie Couric
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
Marilyn Manson
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
George Bernard Shaw
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
Kate Beckinsale
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There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
Victor Hugo
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Fawn M. Brodie
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Edmund Burke
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke
This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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