I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Anonymous
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin, (attributedunsou
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I am not the least afraid to die.
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs
We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.
Jeff Davidson
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.
Tori Amos
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Don DeLillo
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
Ho Chi Minh
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
Regina Spektor
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