Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.
History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.
There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.
My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does.
I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.
Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.
No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-)