I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
William Carlos Williams
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama
Empty pockets make empty heads.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them
Blaise Pascal
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
God is definitely out of the closet.
Marianne Williamson
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter
Even the gods love jokes
Plato
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
David R. Ellis
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Mahatma Gandhi
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Mark Cuban
I tell ya, my family were always big drinkers. When I was a kid, I was missing. They put my picture on a bottle of Scotch.
Rodney Dangerfield
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Arthur Machen
The complex develops out of the simple.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Lionel Blue
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Tom Wilson
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen
I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
Woodrow Wilson
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
Mark Goddard
if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves
Jodi Picoult
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
Jewel
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
Cat Stevens
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
Stephen Richards
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
Walter Martin
The world must be made safe for democracy.
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
Rosanne Cash
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
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