To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Stephen Vizinczey
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture
If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business.
Paul Volcker
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
C.S. Lewis
Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.
V. N. Volosinov
I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.
Mo Rocca
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
Ringo Starr
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
Mark Twain
Some true love turned and not a false turned true.
William Shakespeare
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Kurt Vonnegut
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is legal because I wish it.
Louis XIV
Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
Jane Austen
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Marilyn Manson
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
Marilyn Monroe
I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.
Tiffeny Milbrett
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.
George Pataki
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
Barbara Corcoran
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Reese Witherspoon
The way to have power is to take it.
Boss Tweed
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
Helen Mirren
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,
George Orwell
Each one sees what he carries in his heart
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
Hunter S. Thompson
I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!
Richard Hammond
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Robert Morgan
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
J.K. Rowling
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein
For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
Billy Corgan
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
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