The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
Carol Bellamy
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
Karrie Webb
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.
Heather Wilson
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
Stefano Gabbana
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
Jerry Seinfeld
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
Patty Hearst
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare
If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
Ron Wyden
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.
Steve Berry
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
Mika Brzezinski
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
Pauly Shore
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
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