I don't care what people think of me. I don't even care what happens to me.
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
John Dos Passos, The Prospect Be
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
William Osler
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.
Richard Pratt
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
George Carlin
Life begins on the other side of despair.La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir
JeanPaul Sartre
Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
Maggie Kuhn
Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.
I Ching
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Crystal Eastman, "Time and Tide"
Indifference creates an artificial peace.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ni
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Se
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.
Thomas Powers
To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue.
LaoTzu, The Way of Laotzu
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
Anon.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.with Michael Kube-McDowell
Arthur C. Clarke, The Trigger
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
Euripides, Ion
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury, "Reader's Digest",
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seaso
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
Miguel de Cervantes, Preface to
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you
George Orwell, "Horizon", April,
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
Matthew Arnold
Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It
W. H. Auden
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali,
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardene
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.Open your doors and look abroad.From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.http://rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Itemid=210
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
More will mean worse.
Martin Amis
It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
Ezra Pound
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Salman Rushdie
The war of words is done;The red-lipped cannon speak;The battle has begun.The web your speeches spunTears and blood shall streak;The war of words is done.Smoke enshrouds the sun;Earth staggers at the shriekOf battle new begun.Poltroons and braggarts run:Woe to the poor, the meek!The war of words is done.And hope not now to shunThe doom that dogs the weak,Thunders every gun;Victory must be won.When the red-lipped cannon speak,The war of words is done,The slaughter has begun.
John Davidson
Sleep is better than medicine.
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