I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I didn't even breathe.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Is there life before death?
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
History is more or less bunk.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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