When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.
George Orwell
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...
Charles Dickens
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
But look - he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gesture one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime.
Virginia Woolf
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.
William Paley
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.
Kurt Vonnegut
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Arnold Palmer
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
You must play boldly to win.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
How would your life change if your actions did all the talking and all you used your mouth for was to say please and thank you?
Steve Maraboli
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
George Eliot
Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.
Cassandra Clare
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.
Leo Tolstoy
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
C.S. Lewis
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