There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
David Seabury
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot
Steven Seagal
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
David Searles
The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.
Tom Seaver
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
Thomas Secker
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. Secker
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