I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
Trey Anastasio
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
Liz Phair
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
American Indian Proverb, Minquas
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo
To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
Robert Griffin III
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Aristotle
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officii
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
Idina Menzel
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
Muscles come and go flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Richard Dawkins
You don't know how much you know until you know how much you don't know.
Anon.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
James Broughton
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
Michael Emerson
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
Rick Pitino
But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.
Lil' Kim
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffer
Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert Motherwell
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
David Simon
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