... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism,
that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain,
was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
Anne Perry ( author )
How can we best serve all our people?
How can we serve most effectively?
May I make a suggestion as a first start?
That we do our duty to the people we
love and those who love us first.
Janet Reno ( authors )
In hatred as in love, we grow
like the thing we brood upon. What
we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault ( authors )
I don't think you can look for love.
All you can do is get yourself in a
situation where you don't discourage
something that may be rather nice.
Linda Ronstadt ( authors )
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky ( authors )
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own.
Socrates ( authors )
Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld ( authors )
Who knows where inspiration comes from?
Perhaps it arises from desperation.
Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe,
the kindness of the muses.
Amy Tan ( authors )
The problem with people who have
no vices is that generally you can
be pretty sure they're going to
have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor ( authors )
Man will do many things to get himself loved;
he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain ( authors )
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale ( authors )
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Lord Alfred Tennyson ( authors )
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love
foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Thackery ( authors )
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't
have to say this, but I really like human
beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson ( authors )
The depth and strength of a human character
are defined by its moral reserves.
People reveal themselves completely only when
they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life,
for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky ( authors )
Joy can be real only if people look on their life
as a service, and have a definite object in life outside
themselves and their personal happiness.
Count Leo Tolstoy ( authors )
Life is a comedy for those who think
Life is a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework
for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my
own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be
unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
I refuse to spend my life regretting the things I failed to do.
Liv Ullman ( author )
Nobody remembers who finished second
but the guy who finished second.
Bobby Unser ( authors )
Remember, Information is not knowledge;
Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth;
Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love;
Love is not music; Music is the best.
Frank Zappa ( authors )
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely
well because he likes it,
and one thing supremely well
because he detests it.
Brigham Young ( authors )
A man must live like a great brilliant flame
and burn as brightly as he can.
In the end he burns out.
But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin ( authors )
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking
than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to
appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West ( author )
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde ( author )
No person is you friend who demands
your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker ( author )
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern.
Everyone looks through a particular color,
but the candle is always there.
?Mohammed Neguib ( subjects: religion )
We grow a little every time we do not
take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bern Williams ( authors )
. . . that is the best -- to laugh with someone because
you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt ( authors )
