I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Who were these clowns?
You always pass failure on the way to success.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Life is consciousness.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
People fail forward to success.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
People fail forward to success.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Is there life before death?
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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