it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Sigmund Freud

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Sue Monk Kidd

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

George Washington

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

James Buchan

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I have long felt that there was a general impression in the non-scientific world, that the scientific world believes Science has discovered ways of explaining all the facts of Nature without adopting any definite belief in a Creator. I have never doubted that that impression was utterly groundless.

William Thomson

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

George Ade

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

Albert Camus

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Charles V