Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Earl Wilson

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Theodore Bikel

We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.

Source Unknown

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. p. 87.

Bertrand Russell

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

Theodore Roosevelt

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Ayelet Waldman

I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Chapt

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Eric Schmidt

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

If you think training is hard...try losing.

Davee Jones