As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Anwar Sadat
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
AlainRene Le Sage
There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.
The Siri Singh Sahib
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
Leslie Jeanne Sahler
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is America. This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.
Edward Said
Literature is the immortality of speech.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
David A. Schmaltz
Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
Max Schmelling
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Helmut Schmidt
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
Steve Schmidt
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Walt Schmidt
In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.
Jay Schmiedeskamp
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Artur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler
Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
Harold Schoenberg
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr
Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
James Schorr
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
Olive Schreiner
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest -- blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says -- Work; and to us it says -- Seem! To you it says -- As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says -- Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work! If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, Soul, what have I to do with you?
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward George BulwerLytton, Rich
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