America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: freedom freedom rights greatness passion America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. —John Green More about this quote Tags: ignorance inevitability worries oblivion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything--the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. —Bill Murray More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get —Ray Kroc More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. —Max De Pree More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christians believe if you love God you go to heaven. If you don't go to heaven, you go to hell. So, if you don't love God, you go to hell. God created everything, including heaven and hell. So he created a torture chamber, in case you don't love him back. Crazy. —Oliver Markus Malloy in Inside The Mind of an Introvert More about this quote Tags: torture hell heaven Christians Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone who hates gay people spends way too much time imagining what gay people do in their bedroom. Mind your own fucking business you weirdos. —Oliver Markus Malloy in Inside The Mind of an Introvert More about this quote Tags: privacy gay people weirdos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. —Adyashanti More about this quote Tags: truth destruction happiness enlightenment untruth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them. —Doris Grumbach in Fifty Days of Solitude More about this quote Tags: solitude others presence assurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh. —Mort Saul More about this quote Tags: fear laughter audience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The traveler, alas, is at the mercy of his aesthetic sensations. A fine evening, a seat under a plant tree, the smile of a peasant girl, the scent of orange flower, a view over mountains or river—and he feels at home. His country is not the land where his friends live, but the wider territory of beautiful things—the territory where, if one agrees with Stendhal, he collects those promissory notes of happiness which give a precious fraction of their value when they are pocketed. He is therefore continually subject to accidents. An ugly town, a rainy day, and unsympathetic hotel, and he is at once a double exile—equally far from his native land and from that ideal country which he has set out to visit. The only recourse left is a bottle of wine. —Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain More about this quote Tags: happiness accident wine traveling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. —Gerald Brenan More about this quote Tags: attention self boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar. —Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington More about this quote Tags: love honey vingar Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. —John Henry Newman More about this quote Tags: love power genius organizing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email