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I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."
One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'
One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'
In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.
The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.
Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.
You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.
People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.
Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.