Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
Matthew Prior
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Marcel Proust
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Gloria Naylor
Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Halle Berry
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
Jack Bowman
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
Ben Quayle
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
We become moral when we are unhappy.
My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.
Jim Caviezel
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
Wale
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Mercedes McCambridge
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
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