Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Zig Ziglar

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

Joaquin Phoenix

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Og Mandino

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

Kevin Barry

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Proverb

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Andrea Dworkin