Babeoftheday Quotes & Sayings

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster

Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective. — Katherine Russell

In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust. — James Madison

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity. — Yann Martel

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on. — Jack Kornfield

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose. — Paul G

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home. — Henry David Thoreau

Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today.
That's why they don't get linen — Kinky Friedman

Fine." Desjani sighed. "Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves. — Jack Campbell

Desire is not necessarily translated into action. Will is desire of sufficient intensity that it is translated into action. The difference between the two is equal to the difference between saying "I would like to go swimming tonight" and "I will go swimming tonight." Everyone in our culture desires to some extent to be loving, yet many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both an intention and an action. — M. Scott Peck

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. — Holly Near

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. — Edward Gibbon

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works. — Jane Byrne

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow
intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might
lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment. — Roy Ayers