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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Trust your ability!
Remember always that the composer’s pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I’m embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene – the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you’re living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
When you see violence in movies in general, it’s very quick and painless, which isn’t what it’s like.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Football is my profession now. I’m getting married in August… It’s a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I’d rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I’ve got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it’s gonna be so crazy!
If you look back on the breakups that you’ve had, whether it’s a long relationship or a one-night stand, it’s always awkward.
I’m excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the ’90s there was a lot of hate – the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It’s not so patriarchal these days – there’s more love and a lot less hate!
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women’s movement of the late 1960s and ’70s.
Sometimes I’m dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that’s the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I’ve ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ is, like, really funny.
I’m not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.
They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
For me, ‘revolution’ simply means radical change.
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.