The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Camille Anna Paglia
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Albert Einstein
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim
Oscar Wilde
Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale
Cassandra Clare
The bite of conscience is indecent.
For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
C.S. Lewis
the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
Stephen King
We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life
Aristotle
Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex? Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world. Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
Jane Austen
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
William Shakespeare
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
Reason and truth will prevail at last
Samuel Johnson
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Mark Twain
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
John Green
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.''No I mean it. You don't look good.''This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Solomon Short
You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Frank Shorter
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
Grant Show
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
Herb Shriner
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
Elisabeth Shue
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Get the job done.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
Rick Shuman
God is the name we give our conscience.
Nader Shureih
The wronged side is always the safest.
Sibbes
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney
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