Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Charles de Secondat
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
Carol Kane
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Emily Carr
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert Morgan
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
Ken Hensley
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John le Carre
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
Dr. Alex Carrel
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
John Updike
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Jim Carrey
And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.
Duane G. Carey
If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
Kesha
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
Lewis Carroll
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
Dido Armstrong
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Isak Dinesen
If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
Nancy Kerrigan
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
Robert Duvall
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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