Famous Quotes By Shia LaBeouf

 

1. A relationship to me is never about the romance.
2. At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
3. Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
4. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
5. I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
6. I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
7. I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
8. I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
9. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
10. I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
11. I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
12. I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
13. I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
14. I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.
15. If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
16. I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
17. I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
18. I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
19. I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
20. I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
21. Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
22. My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
23. My family, my parents are hippies.
24. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
25. My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.
26. My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
27. My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
28. Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
29. So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
30. The best movies are simple.
31. The comic book world is a tough business.
32. There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
33. They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
34. To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
35. Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
36. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
37. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
38. When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
39. You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Famous Quotes By Benjamin Carson

 

1. Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
2. Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
3. Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
4. Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
5. I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
6. I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
7. I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
8. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
9. Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
10. In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
11. Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
12. My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
13. No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
14. Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
15. Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
16. People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
17. Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
18. There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
19. There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
20. This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
21. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
22. We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
23. We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
24. We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
25. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
26. With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
27. You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
28. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Famous Quotes By Woody Allen

 

1. As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
2. Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
3. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
4. His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
5. I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
6. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
7. I am two with nature.
8. I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
9. I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
10. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
11. I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
12. I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
13. I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
14. I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
15. I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
16. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
17. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
18. If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
19. If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
20. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
21. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
22. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
23. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
24. It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
25. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
26. Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
27. Marriage is the death of hope.
28. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
29. Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
30. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
31. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
32. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
33. Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
34. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
35. Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
36. The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
37. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
38. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
39. To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
40. Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Famous Quotes By Richard Dawkins

 

1. A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
2. At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
3. But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
4. By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
5. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
6. Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
7. Evolution never looks to the future.
8. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
9. For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
10. God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
11. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
12. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
13. I love romantic poetry.
14. I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
15. I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
16. If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
17. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
18. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
19. Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
20. It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
21. It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
22. Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
23. Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
24. Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
25. One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
26. Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
27. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
28. Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
29. Segregation has no place in the education system.
30. The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
31. The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
32. The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
33. The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
34. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
35. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
36. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
37. We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Famous Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

 

1. All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
2. Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
3. Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
4. Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
5. Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
6. I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
7. I have a lot of money.
8. I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
9. I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
10. I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
11. I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
12. I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
13. If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
14. If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
15. If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
16. If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
17. I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
18. It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
19. Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
20. Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
21. My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
22. Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
23. Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
24. People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
25. Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
26. Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
27. Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
28. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
29. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
30. The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
31. When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
32. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
33. You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
34. You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Famous Quotes By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

 

1. A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
2. A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
3. A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
4. A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
5. All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
6. An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
7. Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
8. Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
9. Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
10. From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
11. God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
12. He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
13. He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
14. If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
15. In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
16. Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
17. Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
18. Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
19. Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
20. Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
21. One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
22. Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
23. Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
24. Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
25. Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
26. Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
27. Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
28. Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
29. The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
30. The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
31. The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
32. The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
33. There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
34. Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
35. What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
36. Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
37. Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
38. Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
39. Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
40. Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Famous Quotes By Dalai Lama

 

1. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
2. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
3. China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
4. Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
5. Computers make me totally blank out.
6. Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
7. Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
8. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
9. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
10. Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
11. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
12. I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
13. I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
14. I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
15. If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
16. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
17. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
18. In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
19. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
20. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
21. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
22. My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
23. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
24. Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
25. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
26. Sleep is the best meditation.
27. Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
28. The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
29. The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
30. The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
31. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
32. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
33. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
34. Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
35. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
36. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
37. When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
38. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
39. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
40. Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Famous Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

 

1. Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
2. Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
3. Freedom is not enough.
4. I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
5. I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
6. I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
7. I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
8. I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
9. I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
10. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
11. I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
12. If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
13. I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
14. In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
15. One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
16. Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
17. Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
18. Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
19. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
20. Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
21. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
22. The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
23. The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
24. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
25. The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
26. The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
27. The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
28. The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
29. There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
30. This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
31. This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
32. To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
33. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
34. We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
35. We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
36. What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
37. You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Famous Quotes By John Wooden

 

1. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
2. Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
3. Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
4. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
5. Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
6. I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
7. I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
8. I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
9. I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
10. I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
11. I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
12. I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
13. If I am through learning, I am through.
14. If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
15. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
16. I'm glad I was a teacher.
17. I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
18. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
19. Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
20. Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
21. Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
22. My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
23. No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
24. Passion is momentary love is enduring.
25. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
26. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
27. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
28. Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
29. Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
30. The most important thing in the world is family and love.
31. There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
32. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
33. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
34. We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
35. Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
36. You can do more good by being good than any other way.

Famous Quotes By Alice Walker

 

1. All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
2. All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
3. As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
4. As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
5. Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
6. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
7. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
8. Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
9. For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
10. How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
11. I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
12. I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
13. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just...
14. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
15. I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
16. I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
17. I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
18. In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
19. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
20. In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
21. It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
22. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
23. My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
24. My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
25. Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
26. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
27. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
28. Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
29. 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
30. The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
31. The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
32. The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
33. The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
34. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
35. To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
36. We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
37. Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
38. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Famous Quotes By Jeffrey Kluger

 

1. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
2. A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
3. As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
4. Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
5. Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
6. In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
7. Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
8. More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
9. My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
10. My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
11. No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?
12. Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
13. Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
14. The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
15. The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.
16. The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
17. There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
18. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
19. Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
20. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Famous Quotes By Bryant H. McGill

 

1. A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
2. American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
3. An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
4. Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.
5. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
6. Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
7. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
8. Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
9. Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
10. Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
11. Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
12. Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
13. Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
14. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
15. Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
16. If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
17. In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
18. It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
19. It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
20. It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
21. Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
22. Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
23. One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
24. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
25. Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
26. Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
27. Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
28. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
29. The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
30. The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
31. The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
32. There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
33. There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
34. There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
35. True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
36. True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
37. True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
38. Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
39. Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
40. While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
41. Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Famous Quotes By Josh Billings

 

1. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
2. A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
3. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
4. As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
5. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
6. Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
7. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
8. Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
9. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
10. I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
11. I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
12. If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
13. If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
14. It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
15. It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
16. Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
17. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
18. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
19. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
20. Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
21. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
22. Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
23. Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
24. Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
25. One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
26. One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
27. The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
28. The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
29. The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
30. The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
31. The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
32. The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
33. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
34. There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
35. There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
36. There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
37. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
38. There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
39. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
40. There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
41. Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
42. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
43. Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Famous Quotes By Daisaku Ikeda

 

1. A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
2. A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
3. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
4. A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
5. Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
6. Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
7. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
8. I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
9. I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
10. In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
11. It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
12. Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
13. Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
14. Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
15. Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
16. No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
17. No one should be left to suffer alone.
18. Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
19. Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
20. The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
21. The gratification of desire is not happiness.
22. The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
23. There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
24. To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
25. Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
26. We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
27. When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
28. When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
29. Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
30. With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Famous Quotes By Virginia Woolf

 

1. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
2. Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
3. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
4. For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
5. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
6. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
7. I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
8. If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
9. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
10. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
11. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
12. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
13. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
14. It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
15. Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
16. Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
17. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
18. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
19. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
20. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
21. Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
22. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
23. Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
24. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
25. The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
26. The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
27. The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
28. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
29. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
30. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
31. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
32. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
33. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
34. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
35. We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
36. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
37. Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
38. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
39. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
40. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
41. You cannot find peace by avoiding life.