I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu
a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Arthur Erickson
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'
Archie Panjabi
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreamsAnd our desires.
Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'
Zac Efron
Death is the end of life; ah why Should life all labour be? . . . All things have rest, and ripen toward the graveIn silence - ripen, fall, and cease; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The LotosE
I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.
Libby Trickett
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my browNo flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!
Thomas F. Healey
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho
He who leads Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawnThat rises unafraid and full of joyAbove the blackness of the darkest night.He must be kind to every living thing;Kind as the Krishna, Buddha and the Christ,And full of love for all created life.Oh, not in war shall his great prowess lie,Nor shall he find his pleasure in the chase.Too great for slaughter, friend of man and beast,Touching the borders of the Unseen RealmsAnd bringing down to earth their mystic firesTo light our troubled pathways, wise and kindAnd human to the core, so shall he be,The coming leader of the coming time.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from The Le
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So many Gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind,When just the art of being kindIs all this sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu
From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfaltering faith in God and guardian spirits. I often wept myself to sleep after a day of disappointments and worries but woke in the morning singing aloud with the joy of life.I always expected wonderful things to happen to me. In some of my hardest days when everything went wrong with everybody at home and all my manuscripts came back for six weeks at a time without one acceptance, I recall looking out of my little north window upon the lonely road bordered with lonelier Lombardy poplars, and thinking,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, reflecting
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie Chaplin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long.Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others fly...They build a nation's pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from A Nati
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller
Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
Chris Christie
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher
As we approach the new millennium, we see how much remains to be done to give our young and future generations a better world to live in: a more peaceful society with a healthier, cleaner environment and a pattern of sustainable development which seeks to eradicate poverty. Education is the single most powerful means to improve the quality of life... the single most powerful weapon against poverty and intolerance. Education builds a culture of peace ... it empowers human beings, both young and adult, to be effective in their chosen sphere of activity ... education in its essence, opens doors to both personal and social development.
Federico Mayor, Address at the S
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