I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma Gandhi
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
André Gide
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
Joseph Sugarman
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.
Steven Wright
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Aeschylus
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Robin Williams
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Anonymous
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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