The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONInvention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Hey, Nana… people’s feelings change easily… what you see is a house of cards… nothing’s sure, and nothing lasts forever.
AI YAZAWA -
There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
ADRIENNE RICH -
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
BILL WATTERSON -
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD -
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
ADAM CLARKE -
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There’s always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I’d say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it’s too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.
BILLY COLLINS -
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON -
You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.
BILL BRYSON -
Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO -
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
NELSON MANDELA -
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
BILL GATES -
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA -
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
OSWALD CHAMBERS -
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH