I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
DENIS DIDEROTThe dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual – there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
KATE BUSH -
I won’t sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I’m fresher than a stick of deo.
RICK ROSS -
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
GUY RITCHIE -
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
EMILY BRONTE -
How beautiful you bloom when you nurture your roots.
GEMMA TROY -
He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
CHANAKYA -
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHR -
Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
HANNAH ARENDT -
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI -
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI -
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL -
See how time makes all grief decay.
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