The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates
A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas Ybarra
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
Paulo Coelho
I got an answering machine for my phone. Now when I'm not homeand somebody calls me up, they hear a recording of a busysignal. I like to leave messages before the beep.
Steven Wright
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
George Eliot
Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
Steve Maraboli
Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
Jane Austen
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
William Shakespeare
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.
Charles Dickens
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Sir Arthur Helps
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
J.K. Rowling
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.
Terry Pratchett
(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
Thomas Carlyle
It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson
[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
C.S. Lewis
I work until beer o'clock.
Stephen King
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
Abraham Lincoln
If you think you can - you can!
Ronald Reagan
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology
Mark Twain
It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?
Aldous Huxley
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
Blaise Pascal
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian
Benjamin Franklin
The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.
Ernest Hemingway
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
An unused life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
Oscar Wilde
Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
Orson Scott Card
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it.
Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.
Victor Hugo
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Mahatma Gandhi
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