Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
James A. Michener
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
Bette Midler
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Bill Wheeler
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
Morgan Freeman
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.
Stephen Moyer
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