I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.
Stephen King
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
Friedrich Nietzsche
You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson
The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
Jenna Jameson
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.
Danny Elfman
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
If all men were rich, all men would be poor
Mark Twain
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
C.S. Lewis
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
Robert Shea
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
Stanislav Grof
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
Terry Pratchett
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. Rowling
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
Steve Maraboli
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Camille Paglia
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
Courtney Love
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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