Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I didn't even breathe.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 07:15 sati.