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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.
You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.
If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.
When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."
There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.
I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.
Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered. Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.
You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.
From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.
Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.