Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.
To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.
The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.
She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.
I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.
The aim of my government is to set up an industrial park at Dhamra. It will bring more investments to the state.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.