Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.
I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?
scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.
Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.