From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
H. P. LOVECRAFTOf all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
And then writer in you is so homesick of pain, that you plead your wounds to bleed and ache.
ANANYA BHASKAR -
What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
AKBAR GANJI -
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY -
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
ANDY WARHOL -
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
BILL BARICH -
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER -
Sweet sixteen today. She’s looking like her momma a little more every day.
BOB CARLISLE -
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
ALAN ALDA -
Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
ACHILLE SILVESTRINI -
There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.
SRI CHINMOY -
I have four elder sisters, and being the youngest, I was pampered.
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT -
They always say ‘youth is wasted on the young’ – there’s something to that.
JENNIFER ANISTON -
The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN