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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.
I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.
I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.
You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.
Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!
It is often said that it's a man's world; we must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!
A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!
Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!
There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.
I would agree if the race were today, most likely, our nominee would be Donald Trump, but it isn`t today.
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.