Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, it is better to be a good bourgeois like the others than a bad bohemian, a false aristocrat, or a second-rate intellectual. —Albert Camus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. —Cary Grant More about this quote Tags: imagination identity transformation pretend Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who is "ill-adjusted to the world" is always on the point of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. —Colin Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. —Ivan Turgenev More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sigmund Freud was so fond of smoking that he was somewhat irritated when men around him did not smoke. Consequently nearly all who formed the inner circle became more or less passionate cigar smokers. —Hans Sachs More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. —Clifford Odets More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. —W. C. Fields More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Denial, abstraction, pity . . . are a few of the ways in which the mind reacts to suffering and attempts to restrict or direct the natural compassion of the heart. This tension between head and heart leaves us tentative and confused. As we reach out, then pull back, love and fear are pitted against one another. As hard as this is for us, what must it be like for those who need our help? —Ram Dass and Paul Gorman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there; it's so petty. —Imelda Marcos, during her trial for embezzlement More about this quote Tags: perspective money pettiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. —Dom H. Camara More about this quote Tags: politics poverty food communism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: money poverty inequality research study Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His books having brought in little revenue, Anatole France was still a poor man when he was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor. His friends sympathized with his plight; one of them suggested that it would have been more generous to have given the writer a cash prize instead of the cross, which served no useful purpose. "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said France. "When I wear the sash, it will cover the stain on my jacket. That's useful. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email