Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
Stephen Jay Gould
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
Terry Pratchett
You not sell your talent, your genius; as soon as you do, you are a prostitute. You sell your work, but not your soul.
Leo Tolstoy
Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!
Cassandra Clare
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
Plato
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.
Paul Lynde
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long
William Shakespeare
He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.
Neil Gaiman
This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
Jane Austen
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
Wallace Shawn
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Fay Weldon
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans, openly inviting, breasts falling free and shameless and feeling no apparent obligation to smile, look pleasant or keep their voices low. And how they live! Just look at them to know how! If a man doesn't bring them to orgasm, they look for another who does. If by mistake they fall pregnant, they abort by vacuum aspiration. If they don't like the food, they push the plate away. If the job doesn't suit them, they hand in their notice. They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
Rodney Dangerfield
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
We can only change the world by changing men.
Charles Wells
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Ida B. Wells
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs
Infantilism is possibly the hallmark of our generation.
John Wells
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.
John Welsh
All lovers swear more performance than they are able
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Phil Weltman
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly
The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.
Sidney A. Weltmer
Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
Barrett Wendell
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders
But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.
Dierks Bentley
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.
C. W. Wendte
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Charles Wesley
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Baron Wessenberg
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles C. West
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
Jerry West
If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
Meredith West
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
Padma Lakshmi
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