History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Art is science made clear.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
He who laughs, lasts!
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
They can conquer who believe they can.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Is there life before death?
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
To try to be better is to be better.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Is there life before death?
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
The best way out is always through.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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