quotes

Instant gratification takes too long.

- Carrie Fisher

CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

- Henry Moore

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

- Lewis, Wyndham

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

- Marilyn C. Barrick

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

- William Shakespeare

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

- Elizabeth Jenkins

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

- Lord Acton

Computer dating is fine, if youÆre a computer.

- Rita Mae Brown

10.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

11.

But did thee feel the earth move?

- Ernest Hemingway

12.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place in the air. All must do is find it, and copy it.

- Jules Reynard

13.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

- Leo Tolstoy

14.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

- Johnson, Paul

15.

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

- Jordan, June

16.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

- Paul, Jean

17.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

- Buddha

18.

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

- Francesco Caracciolo

19.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

- Burroughs, William S.

20.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

- Los Angeles Times