Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRDeath is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
ZADIE SMITH -
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISP -
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
COLIN POWELL -
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVIS -
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER -
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
BEYONCE KNOWLES -
I am not a party girl.
BRIDGET HALL -
You revived me after my knees were weak, you kept going on towards another peak.
EMMA SCHIPPERS -
When I went into Bobby’s World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.
HOWIE MANDEL -
There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
ADAM SAVAGE -
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
SOPHIA LOREN -
Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers
ADAM BROWN -
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDA