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But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.
Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!
Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!
Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you!
In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!
It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!
We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.
When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.
Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.
If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active.
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.
For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them.
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.