The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
Ashley Judd
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
Annie Leibovitz
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
David Chalmers
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
Bryan Adams
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
Carly Fiorina
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
Bob Hayes
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Matthew Henry
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
Al Gore
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
Diane Arbus, From class lectures
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbir
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes
BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry, The Boy with a
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.
Tom Daschle
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'
Barry McGuire
I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
Allen Leech
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres,And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,And are setting the world by the ears!
Maria Weston Chapman, The Times
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
Fred Durst
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
Under the Earth I go, On the oak leaf I stand.I ride on the fillyThat was never foaled,And I carry the dead in my hand.
Anon., traditional storyteller's
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Sydney Schanberg
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
Harold Bloom
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins, American Library
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