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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.
Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.
Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
I wouldn't say Donald Trump is a champion for white America, I think he shares a lot of the issues and values of white America.
All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.
A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.