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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. - Og Mandino
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand
it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. - Francis Bacon
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. - Euripides
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
-Shannon L. Alder
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
Matt LeBlanc
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with
no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
-Vera Nazarian
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. - Daisaku Ikeda
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. - Christian Nestell Bovee
There are things known and there are
things unknown, and in between are
the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. - Bayard Rustin
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. – Albert Einstein
“Just for the record, the way to a man's heart isn't through his stomach, but through the best fucking blow job ever. You want a man to be your bitch? Perfect your craft.”
― Devon Ashley, Falling Upward
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. – Albert Einstein
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. - Thomas Carlyle
Love destroys people. It's emotional heroin.
-Benjamin Haymond
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
― Marilyn Monroe
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. - Henry Kissinger
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. - James Joyce
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. - Jim Morrison
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. - Karl Kraus
Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.
-Cristen Rodgers
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. - John Milton
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. - Benjamin Spock
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be
hidden. - James Herbert
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real. - Charles R. Swindoll
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
-Gabriel Bá
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
When old friends get together, all else fades to insignificance.
-War, Famine, Pestilence and Death