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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
I do what I do instinctively, and that’s me. If you like me, that’s fine; if you don’t like me then don’t watch me.
He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.
It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.
I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.
I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.
I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.
Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.
Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.
I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.