Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
Ray Lewis
A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
William Frederick Book
The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.
George Eliot
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
Louis C. K.
Advice is the smallest current coin.
Ambrose Bierce
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
Fear always springsfrom ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Friedrich Engels
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent
...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)
Ronald Reagan
With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the
Benjamin Franklin
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
Mahatma Gandhi
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.
Jared Leto
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Paulo Coelho
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
LeBron James
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
Gary Ryan Blair
In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
Sherman Alexie
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
Glenn Beck
There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
Steve Maraboli
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
Mo Rocca
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
Jon Johansen
According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.
Stephen Richards
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Voltaire
I respect the office of the president.
Jan Brewer
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
Sienna Miller
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
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