By day the appalling loose beauty of prowling floes: lions' heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks, and a thing like a blown rose.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Norman Vincent Peale

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Ed Westwick

Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not come from wars; social justice does not come from selfishness. With all our knowledge of chemistry we cannot make a human life in our laboratories because we lack the unifying, vivifying principal of a soul which comes only from God. Life is not a push from below; it is a gift from above. It is not the result of the necessary ascent of man but the loving descent of God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

St. Francis De Sales

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Marcus Garvey