Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
Funeral Blues
W. H. Auden
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
The greatest evil is physical pain.
There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.
Fred W. Fitch
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
There is always a way to go if you look for it.
Ernest A. Fitzgerald
The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
Penelope Fitzgerald
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald
The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess I'll split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
C. Fitzhugh
There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
P. B. Fitzwater
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
It is not something I must do but something I want to do
James Fixx
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Roberta Flack
Who has not served cannot command.
John Florio
If you don
James Atlas, essay: The Fall of
We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi
Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Sir Winston Churchill
If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
Paul McCartney
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren Bennis
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
Truman Capote
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
Vincent Van Gogh
Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.
Greg Werner
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?
Kahlil Gibran, The New Frontier
We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
Warren Harding, at the 1916 Repu
In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. . . . And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.
Tim O'Brien, The Nuclear Age (p.
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