Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
Oscar Wilde
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Valerie Jarrett
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
George Eliot
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Martin Scorsese
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
Laura Benanti
Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
Angus Young
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Jane Austen
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
Rick Springfield
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
Terry Pratchett
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
Stephen King
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Orson Scott Card
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
The moment Colin sat down, Hollis asked Hassan, Would you like to say grace? Sure thing. Hassan cleared his throat. Bismallah. Then he picked up his fork. That's it? Hollis wondered. That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry.
John Green
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Benjamin Franklin
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever
Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
Thomas Becket
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
Harry Connick, Jr.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
Mark Twain
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Boris Kodjoe
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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