The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism?The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

John Green

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Francesca Annis

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Jules Michelet

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

John O'Donohue

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

Source Unknown

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

Cassandra Clare

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Earl Nightingale

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Denis Kearney

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston Churchill