"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."

Eliot, George on platitudes   

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"I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree."

Wiesel, Elie on god   

"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."

Dangerfield, Rodney on marriage   

"What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring."

Vigilanti, David A. on romance and romanticism   

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Marlowe, Christopher on love
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. Because, since men almost always walk in the paths beaten by others and carry on their affairs by imitatingeven though it is not possible to keep wholly in the paths of others or to attain the ability of those you imitatea prudent man will always choose to take paths beaten by great men and to imitate those who have been especially admirable, in order that if his ability does not reach theirs, at least it may offer some suggestion of it; and he will act like prudent archers, who, seeing that the mark they plan to hit is too far away and knowing what space can be covered by the power of their bows, take an aim much higher than their mark, not in order to reach with their arrows so great a height, but to be able, with the aid of so high an aim, to attain their purpose. "

Machiavelli, Niccolo on uncategorised   

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

Froude, James A. on humankind
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"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Anger is a brief lunacy."

Horace on anger
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"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Proverb, Malabar on anger
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Hurston, Zora Neale on fear
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"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

Cheney, John Vance on tears
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"The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses."

Westphal, Paul on competition   

"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."

Williamson, Marianne on love
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"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on friends and friendship
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"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

Miller, Henry on passion
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on music
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"It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work."

Ephron, Nora on cinema   

"Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect."

Day, Sir Robin on vision   

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes."

Jordan, Michael on heroes and heroism   

"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on action
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"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."

Ewing, Russell H. on leadership
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Beecham, Sir Thomas on music
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"So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on vision   

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything."

Warhol, Andy on cinema
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on perseverance
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"Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!"

Byron, Lord on cries and crying   

"I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed."

Arata, Tony on dream
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket."

Horton, Doug on heroes and heroism