Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R.R. Martin
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us.
Rene Magritte
Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.
Liu Wen
Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Knute Rockne
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
Bryan Cranston
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
Kate Adie
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Tom Hanks
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
Jerry Falwell
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
Dennis Hastert
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
Chloe Sevigny
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Shania Twain
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
Ann Veneman
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