As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy lead. Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a swell story, too,Called it BibleBut its dead now. The popes and the preachersveMade too much money from it. Theyve sold you too manyKings, generals, robbers, and killersEven to the Czar and the Cossacks,Even to Rockefellers church,Even to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. You aint no good no more. Theyve pawned youTill youve done wore out. Goodbye,Christ Jesus Lord God Jehova,Beat it on away from here now. Make way for a new guy with no religion at allA real guy namedMarx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker MEI said, ME!Go Ahead on now,Youre getting in the way of things, Lord. And please take Saint Ghandi sic with you when you go,And Saint Pope Pius,And Saint Aimee McPherson,And big black Saint BectonOf the Consecrated Dime. And step on the gas, Christ!Move!Dont be so slow about movin!The world is mine from now onAnd nobodys gonna sell METo a king, or a general,Or a millionaire.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Francis Macdonald Cornford
our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
Merelene Cornish
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JeanBaptiste Corot
They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
Gregory Corso
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Julio Cortazar
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Cory
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby
When in doubt, delete it.
Philip Cosby
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell
Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
Kevin Costner
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Comer Cotrell
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Thomas J. Cottle
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Nathaniel Cotton
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Rene Coty
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
Jo Coudert
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue
Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
L. A. Coulson
When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
Fred Couples
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
Jim Courier
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
Henry Courtney
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Cousin
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