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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
Millets are an integral part of tribal life and a staple diet of tribals of Odisha since time immemorial.
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
Wonder Woman is out there very much defending the right and being strong and being a positive role model.
The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.
Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.