Earnably Quotes & Sayings

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically. — Carl Forti

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling ... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love. — D.H. Lawrence

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
The watershed of Time, from which the streams
Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,
One to the land of promise and of light,
One to the land of darkness and of dreams! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.") — Maya Angelou

I would say history is a clear witness to many of the problems that have erupted when two partners from the same industry or same country have come together. — Sunil Mittal

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. — Alain Badiou

I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what — Josh Stern

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying. — James Patterson

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory. — Dick Morris