He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Samuel Johnson
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
Jane Smiley
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Dana Carvey
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
Henry David Thoreau
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.
Beth Ditto
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Jane Austen
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
Bob Graham
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
Amy Klobuchar
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Virginia Woolf
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Neil LaBute
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.
I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.
Lukas Haas
It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
Daniel Radcliffe
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
We are all fools when one wise man appears.
Orson Scott Card
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Keith Henson
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
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