Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900
The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ~Francois Mauriac
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. ~William James
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. ~Maarten Maartens
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob Parsons
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ~Robert Townsend
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom) Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. ~Maimonides
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. ~Elbert Hubbard
Hunting God is a great adventure. ~Marie DeFloris
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. ~Lois Wyse
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ~Liz Smith
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart
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