You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. Jimmy Carter
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. Michelangelo Evil
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes Truth
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson Man
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson Happiness
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Humor Silence People
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens Mystery
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. Garry Kasparov Woman
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. Diogenes Music Virtue
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine Inspirational Philosophy Funny Cat Wisdom
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci Intelligence
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis. Mira Nair Dreams
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. Alfred Hitchcock
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms. Billie Jean King
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics Affairs
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. Virginia Woolf
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. Elia Kazan
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. Peter Weir
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. Anatole France Honesty
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats Poetry
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. George Eliot Death
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. Alfred Hitchcock
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Milan Kundera
