The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
Frank Moore Colby
Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
Jami Gertz
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
Mia Wasikowska
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. Truman
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
Damian Lewis
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
Albert Einstein
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
Carol P. Christ
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam Chomsky
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
Margaret Cho
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
Mitch Hedberg
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Michael Korda
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