Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

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The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

R. L. Gregory

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

Troy Dumais

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Lyman L. Bryson

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Sienna Miller

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Leslie Fiedler

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Mary Douglas

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Robert Crumb

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden