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Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'
If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.
Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.
Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.
Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.
The guy I've got my eye on happens to be hot. Off-the-charts hot. Hotter-than-Patch hot.' She paused. 'Well maybe not that hot. Nobody's that hot.
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.
I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.
All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus
Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.