A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon.
Anon.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum, The Storyteller'
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers.
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
Captain J. G. Stedman
Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.
To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.
Dawn Steel
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Sir Richard Steele
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, What are you going to be when you grow up? and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
Gwen Stefani
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens
Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
That what is true of business and politics is gloriously true of the professions, the arts and crafts, the sciences, the sports. That the best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
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