Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.
Cassandra Clare
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
Charles Dickens
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels
I was an ugly kid. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get.
Rodney Dangerfield
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
C.S. Lewis
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Frank Abagnale
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
Karen Armstrong
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
Rick Perry
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay
The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.
Timothy West
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
Steve Maraboli
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
What we call results are beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert Camus
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