I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
The wishing gate opens into nothing.
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Josef Stalin
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
Dr. Charles Stanley
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
Ringo Starr
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
No one will do it for you.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Remarks are not literature.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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