He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 01:25 sati.