Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

George McGovern

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Sun Tzu

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Beth Ditto

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

That's right. Act like rejected . It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.

Cassandra Clare

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd

Niels Bohr

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Gayle King

The universe is infinite, and abundance is the default nature of things.

Stephen Richards