All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M Scott Peck
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Gore Vidal
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.
Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
Walter Matthau
Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
Andrew Matthews
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
Claude LeviStrauss
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
C.S. Lewis
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
The average person thinks he isn't.
Larry Lorenzoni
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Geroge Lorimer
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
Henri Benjamin Rebecque
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
James Redfield
Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
William C. Redfield
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
Robert Redford
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
Lynn Redgrave
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
Alan Redpath
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