Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns, At age 87; he live
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
Lee Iacocca, "The San Francisco
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Jerry Saltz
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck, Remark to Pri
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
Jon Corzine
No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.
Otto von Bismarck, reply when to
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Herodotus
I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
Ezra Miller
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
Joe Baca
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy, letter Tolstoy, Feb
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
Joseph Addison, "in the Spectato
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
Charles E. Wilson
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
Rene Descartes
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice...
George Eliot, The Mill on the Fl
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
Rob Sheffield
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
Henry David Thoreau, Excursions,
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry
...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
Alain de Botton, On Love
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
Ralph Venning
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.
Otto von Bismarck, Speech Declar
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
Lionel Blue
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Ville Valo
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck, addressing hy
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese Proverb
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