Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.
The kernel of the 11th house is 'the urge to become something greater than we already are'.
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.
You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.
There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.
Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.
Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.
At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.
No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.
Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.
The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'
Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.