If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
Source Unknown
One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.
Ernest Hemingway
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
George Bernard Shaw
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Plato
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George Lucas
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
John Mayer
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
Renee Fleming
I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Lee Myung-bak
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.
Christopher Hitchens
What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.
James Lafferty
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
Rosa Luxemburg
Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.
Stephen Richards
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Walt Disney
It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.
Steve Maraboli
I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.
Brandon Boyd
I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.
Cassandra Clare
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther
Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.
Mike Judge
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
Albert Einstein
Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts... (Act IV, Scene II)
William Shakespeare
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Dick Dale
Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.
Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak.
Blaise Pascal
One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest enemy to fear is truth.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
Kate Millett
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Maynard James Keenan
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
Vaclav Havel
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Hugh Mackay
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