Society therefore is as ancient as the world.
VoltairePeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndIt was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.
Dolores HuertaThe world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerOne and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch SpinozaI only see clearly what I remember.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
BuddhaThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliTo the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
Mr. TThere’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouA lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘
Mark ZuckerbergEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellI would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
DrakeThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThere may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.
Margaret AtwoodIt is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Virginia WoolfEverything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne DyerWe need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother TeresaAmerica is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. BushMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouReally, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine AlbrightWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGeorge is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.
Steven WrightHow can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
PlatoWe often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich NietzscheThe good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George EliotI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanEverybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.
RihannaNature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘
Mahatma GandhiThe worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
Robert KiyosakiDemocracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Bob DylanIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘
Alice WalkerLook at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin PowellNothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da VinciPlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine HepburnIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador DaliThe difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador DaliThe darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.
Margaret AtwoodThere is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TolkienMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiJust as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai LamaThe way ‚Lux‘ was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
Brian EnoThe view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin DisraeliGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareA man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho MarxPictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellExpectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
Bill GatesFiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker