The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
William Cowper, The Task. Book v
Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
John Oldham, Satire upon a Print
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sati
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.French: La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
Bergen Evans
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Clive Bell
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Paul Farmer
Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
CrimethInc.
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
Toba Beta
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America
Ron Dellums
I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
Astral body is also contagious and affects the surrounding objects and persons. Love emitting from our body or hate coming out of our body in form of Aura or Astral force will affect the people around.
Virchand R. Gandhi
When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
Ray Blanton
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
Rachel Cohn
When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it. No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, Nothing doing, and refuse to inspect it.
Ogden Nash
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
Ruby Wax
Race differences show up early in life.
J. Philippe Rushton
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
Edward Abbey
We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.
Nina LaCour
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.
Vaclav Havel
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.
Maggie Stiefvater
With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.
Andrew Davidson
I wanted love to conquere all. But love can't conquere anything.It can't do anyhting on its own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
David Levithan
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
Dean Koontz
It's like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have...Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you've ever seen...But some of the pieces were so beautiful they almost hurt my eyes to look at when I was a kid...That's the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you have so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.
Brooke McKinley
Life is only a brief stop on the road to eternity. Our loved ones, acquaintances, and strangers pass away before our very eyes on a daily basis. Yet each of us carries on with our lives as if we will live forever. This is merely an illusion; of course, as it is an inevitable consequence of life that each of us must die.
Jeff W. Horton
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
Hugh Sidey
Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
Stephen Chbosky
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
Maya Angelou
Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.
Cat Agonis
The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th.
Hlovate
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.
Michael H. Hart
The more that science unravels about the wonder of life and the universe, the more i am in are of it. the beauty and wonder of the universe and all that surrounds us offers proof of God. I like that idea
Ranya Idliby
The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.
R.N. Prasher
I could not accept the academic idea that the purpose of music was communication, because I noticed that when I conscientiously wrote something sad, people and critics were often apt to laugh. I determined to give up composition unless I could find a better reason for doing it than communication. I found this answer from Gira Sarabhai, an Indian singer and tabla player: The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. I also found in the writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswammy that the responsibility of the artist is to imitate nature in her manner of operation. I became less disturbed and went back to work.http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html
John Milton Cage, An Autobiograp
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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