Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C.S. Lewis
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
Ingvar Kamprad
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
Albert Camus
Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territoryits great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippias well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield
In this world, you get what you pay for.
Kurt Vonnegut
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Callimachus
Art thou less a slave by being loved and favoured by thy master? Thou art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favours thee; he will soon beat thee.
Blaise Pascal
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
Cynthia McKinney
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Wayne Calloway
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams
You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.'Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin.Vimes blinked at her.Pardon?' he said.It's wounded!'Lady, that was the intention, wasn't it? Anyway, it's only stunned,' said Vimes.I mean you can't let them kill it like ,' said Lady Ramkin insistently. 'Poor thing!'What do you want to do, then?' demanded Vimes, his temper unravelling. 'Give it a strengthening dose of tar oil and a nice comfy basket in front of the stove?'It's butchery!'Suits me fine!'But it's a dragon! It's just doing what a dragon does! It never would have come here if people had left it alone!'Vimes thought: it was about to eat her, and she can still think like this. He hesitated. Perhaps that give you the right to an opinion...
Terry Pratchett
We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Benjamin F. Wade
Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.
Calvin Calverley
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas Sydenham
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Sara Paxton
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
Kahlil Gibran
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
Sylvester Stallone
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
Bernard Ebbers
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Mary Antin
There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows--in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain--in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.
George Eliot
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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