93550 Quotes & Sayings

Artists are always young. — Margaret Fuller

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. — William Hedgcock Webster

If you want to make amends for the life you have led then start now. — Sam J. Charlton

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves. — Casey Nicholaw

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
For each an imagined image brings
And finds a real image there ... — William Butler Yeats

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can. — Toussaint Louverture

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer. — Louise Hay

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. — Seth Lloyd

Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are present with you according to right and to handle skillfully the present impression, that nothing you have not mastered may cross the threshold of the mind. — Marcus Aurelius

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized. — Alfred Korzybski

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. — William Hazlitt

I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun. — Andrew Jackson

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island. — Edmund White