'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinger
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be patient, Ophelia.Love,Hamlet
Kurt Vonnegut
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
Gabrielle Reece
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
Wes Anderson
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Thomas L. Masson
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
Dan Glickman
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
My life was changed in one breath from God.
Donna Summer
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Brian Masters
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
Peter King
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given
Albert Camus
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Edgar Lee Masters
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Cotton Mather
China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
Paul Wolfowitz
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Harry Mathews
If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land ontheir feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a catand drop it?
Steven Wright
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
Let us cultivate our garden.
Voltaire
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
William Mathews
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks
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