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The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I can withstand anything.
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.
The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50
To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive
The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.
I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.
Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.
There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.