The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
Aristotle
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
R. L. Stine
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.
Clive Owen
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Gustav Stickley
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
Webb Simpson
What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?
Virginia Woolf
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen
Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story.
Steve Maraboli
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug Coupland
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
C.S. Lewis
The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.
Juno Temple
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
Jim Leach
American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.
Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!
Stephen King
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
Miranda Otto
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
Scott Ritter
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