New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
ALAN BRIENAccursed be he who plays with the devil.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
LEON TROTSKY -
Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.
BLAINE HOGAN -
Simplicity, that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years.
JOHNNY DEPP -
We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
BOB HOPE -
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
MARGARET ATWOOD -
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
BERNICE KING -
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER -
Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.
MOOJI -
Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge.
ANONYMOUS -
Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
ADRIANA TRIGIANI -
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
HENRIK IBSEN