I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.
Albert Camus
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy Rucker
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
Louise Slaughter
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda Meir
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Ralph Merkle
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens
I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
Randy Moss
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer
Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
Vanessa Paradis
You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
Ben Affleck
Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not.
Plato
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Chris Bailey
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchett
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
Elvis Stojko
Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
Cassandra Clare
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
Michael Sheen
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert Sheldrake
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
C.S. Lewis
We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Paul Kagame
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
Sandra Bullock
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
Virginia Woolf
His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.
Kurt Vonnegut
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
J.K. Rowling
You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
Paula Deen
I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.
Leo Tolstoy
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Eugenio Montale
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank
I hate being poor.
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