Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men.
Clare Boothe Luce
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should incipient allegories to the reader.[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]
C.S. Lewis
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
John Green
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places.
Steve Maraboli
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, fit to split the ears of groundlings. He asked if it had a name, and I said Indianapolis.
Kurt Vonnegut
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Ambrose Bierce
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.
Oscar Wilde
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
Aldous Huxley
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Albert Einstein
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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