Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.
The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?
The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.
Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.
Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
There are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews.
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.