My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

Thomas Mann

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Miranda Lambert

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder, and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Leonard Cohen

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Ovid

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.

Lao Tzu

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

Norman Mailer

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Victor Kiam