Christopher Hampton
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
Category: Quotes of the day
The Talmud
“Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you…and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or …
Rene Descartes
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Paul Fix
“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Franklin P. Adams
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
Iris Murdoch
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
Martina Horner
“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
George Herbert
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
Ugo Betti
“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
Walter Bagehot
“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.”
Don Marquis
“A hypocrite is a person who–but who isn’t?”
Charles Kuralt
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
Robert Fulford
“I have seen the future and it doesn’t work.”
Blaise Pascal
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
Barbara Mikkelson
“Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it’s often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.”
William Penn
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
Carlos Castaneda
“Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance …
Emiliano Zapata
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King
“No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?”
William Congreve
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rise.”
Bruce Lee
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Adele Brookman
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”
Susan Sontag
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
Carl Schurz
“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. …
Harrison Ford
“Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.”
Charles Mackay
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses …
Havelock Ellis
“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be …
Nikola Tesla
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to …
Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
“Hope is only the love of life.”
Bono
“In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn’t quite know what to do about it. …
George McDonald
“Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say …
Mitch Hedberg
“With a stop light, green means ‘go’ and yellow means ‘slow down’. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means ‘go’, green …
Mitch Albom
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Sonia Taitz
“What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.”
Steve Pavlina
“If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults …
Joseph Stalin
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
George F. Will
“Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.”