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The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.
All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.
When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.