Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Grace (Patricia) Kelly

This is my impression of a bowling ball... (Drags the mikealong the floor, then lifts it...) Gutter...

Steven Wright

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

Ralph L. Woods

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving in the spirit of love, expecting nothing in return is how God gives and so should we, as we are a piece of our creator.

Alice Hocker

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Aldous Huxley

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

Ashurnasirpal