Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
Eric Hoffer
If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
Charlie Hunnam
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
Billy Graham
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
A man by himself is in bad company.
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
It's funny because it's funny.
David Spade
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
Kevyn Aucoin
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
Kristin Hersh
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
John Green
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Pauline Kael
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
Amber Heard
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
Carl Levin
Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.
Stedman Graham
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis
My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
Gary Numan
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
Robert Musil
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Serj Tankian
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
Jonathan Sacks
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