The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
Roseanne Barr
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
Barres
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
E.S. Barrett
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Ethel Barrett
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
George Barrington
Everything can be improved.
C. W. Barron
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Stan Barstow
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Mildred Barthel
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Don Barthelme
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
Roland Barthes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Mary Baker Eddy
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
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