The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Eminem

A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.

Albert Camus

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Milan Kundera

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Azar Nafisi

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Lewis Thomas

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

Mary MacLane

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

H. L. Mencken

Life without the courage for death is slavery

Seneca

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Gene Hackman

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Hugh Shelton