Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.
Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!
When everything is going greatly, you can never see the real faces of the people! Wait for the hard times to see the true face!
When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!
Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!
If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.