The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Lily Tomlin
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
David Herbert Lawrence
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.
Arnold J. Toynbee
By being friends with all, we are not alone.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha Graham
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!
Lionel Richie
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Benjamin Carson
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.
Lionel Trilling
You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
Mark Wahlberg
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Haruki Murakami
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Kathleen Turner
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings
At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut
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