My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.
Michelle ObamaDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellI wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.
Kanye WestMan, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.
Tom BradyEveryone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve JobsOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich NietzscheThe worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard ShawI find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
Robert GreeneYou see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
BonoAnybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob DylanWhen death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George EliotThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareI’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
Kevin HartToo many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard BransonOne likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia WoolfMost people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.
Robert KiyosakiOnly kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘
Mark TwainTo see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao TzuDeath means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
Dalai LamaI love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
RihannaI’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly PartonI want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother TeresaIgnorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George EliotFor me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
Kanye WestIt’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice WalkerLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheI have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Nelson MandelaWhatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
Narendra ModiI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. FeynmanLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EpicurusMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconThis soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia WoolfGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainMost humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Eckhart TolleWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinReally I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfAn inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
Paul AusterNothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David HareLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard ShawOur life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellI found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
Dwayne JohnsonA lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint EastwoodFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas CarlyleA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinEmotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
Robert GreeneWe are anthill men upon an anthill world.
Ray BradburyWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark TwainI’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly PartonIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. EisenhowerSome people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.
Greta ThunbergDeath is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon BonaparteLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin