That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

Louis Macneice

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Niels Bohr

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

Douglas Adams

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan P. Smith

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What does this beauty or than music mean to you? you cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.

Helen Keller