Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark.

Carl Sagan

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Karl Menninger

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Halle Berry

First deserve then desire.

Proverb

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Oliver Hassencamp

Well, then I'll die.' Sooner than other people, obviously. But everybody knows that life isn't worth living. And when it came down to it, I wasn't unaware of the fact that it doesn't matter very much whether you die at thirty or at seventy since, in either case, other men and women will naturally go on living, for thousands of years even. Nothing was plainer, in fact. It was still only me who was dying, whether it was now or in twenty years' time.

Albert Camus

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Eliza Cook

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Robert Evans

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Blaise Pascal