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When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone!
Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!
You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!
Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?
So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road
Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.
I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
I am committed and content to work for the people of Odisha. I have no national ambitions whatsoever.
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs
It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.
If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.