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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!
You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!
A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!
In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI
I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!
In this vast universe, we are condemned to feel tiny; megalomaniac is the one who cannot feel the true dimensions of this universe!