Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

Flannery O'Connor

...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

Harry Blamires

Pay bad people with you goodness; fight their hatred with you kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Leo Tolstoy

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

E. M. Forster

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

Emeril Lagasse

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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