I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Any big hotels have got scandals,' he said. 'Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.
Stephen King
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Paulo Coelho
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
Neil Gaiman
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
H. G. Bohn
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
Kurt Vonnegut
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Nicholas Boileau
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
Cassandra Clare
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
Kahlil Gibran
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
Business is the salt of life.
Voltaire
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Boiste
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
John Green
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
Edward William Bok
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Space and time are relative.
Albert Einstein
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Henry Bolingbroke
The less government we have, the better - the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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