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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.
For someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!
Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.
A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!
A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!
Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!
In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!
No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!
When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!
You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!
Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.
...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Vajpayee had a much bigger stature than Mr Modi. He knew how to run a coalition government very successfully.
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.