Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
William Shakespeare
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
Norman MacCaig
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
James Ramsey
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.
Jodi Picoult
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Erwin T. Randall
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Patrick Rothfuss
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.
J. Herman Randall
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
George Bernard Shaw
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Ajay Naidu
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
Stanely J. Randall
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Ivan Turgenev
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
G. Randolf
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Chad Smith
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
Annabella Sciorra
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph
A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
Phillip Phillips
That most delicious of all privilegesspending other peoples money.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane Austen
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Miriam Makeba
In regard to this principle, that all men are born free and equal, if there is an animal on earth to which it does not applythat is not born free, it is manhe is born in a state of the most abject want, and in a state of perfect helplessness and ignorance, which is the foundation of the connubial tie. Who should say that all the soil in the world is equally rich, the first rate land in Kentucky and the Highlands of Scotland because the superficial content of the acre is the same, would be just as right as he who should maintain the absolute equality of man in virtue of his birth. The ricketty and scrofulous little wretch who first sees the light in a work-house, or in a brothel, and who feels the effects of alcohol before the effects of vital air, is not equal in any respect to the ruddy offspring of the honest yeoman; nay, I will go further, and say that a prince, provided he is no better born than royal blood will make him, is not equal to the healthy son of a peasant.
Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?
Cassandra Clare
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee
Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligulas horse was made Consul.
The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.
Curt Schilling
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
King Abdullah II
Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.
Rebecca Romijn
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revaled anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was ocurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelho
What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
Wolfgang Puck
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
Billie Holiday
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