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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.
In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.
Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost
While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.
Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?
As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.
Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.
There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.